Person of interest in custody in the Brown University mass shooting is Benjamin Ericson.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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3 Things You Need to Know About Brown University's SHOCKING Incident The story of the Brown University shooting is far from over. The legal case against Benjamin Erickson will move through the justice system. But the story of the campus itself is one of a community that's been changed forever. The physical scars on the Barus and Holley building will be repaired, but the psychological wounds will take much longer to heal. This event is a painful addition to a statistic that continues to grow. In recent years, the United States has consistently seen hundreds of mass shootings annually. What happened at Brown is not an isolated incident, but a reflection of a larger national crisis.

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0:00.0	Good evening, everyone, in the Brown University shooting in which two students were killed and nine were seriously injured.
0:15.7	CNN is naming a person of interest. This has this has not been released specifically by law enforcement, but CNN is putting
0:26.6	the name out of an individual who law enforcement is only naming as a person of interest,
0:33.8	but he's being held in custody.
0:35.4	And you see a picture of him up on the screen.
0:40.6	His name is Benjamin Erickson.
0:47.3	And he is believed to be the mass shooter wanted for the Brown University shooting in which two students were killed and nine were injured.
0:54.0	All we know about him right now is a 24-year-old military man.
0:59.4	He traveled 17 hours to Brown University.
1:02.4	They believe he's from Wisconsin.
1:04.6	He also has a residence in Washington, D.C.
1:09.3	So that is some of the information. and updates are coming in. According to the New York
1:16.3	Times, a man from Wisconsin is in custody in connection with the attack that killed two people
1:24.7	and injured nine others at Brown University, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
1:30.8	The man has not been charged in connection with the shooting,
1:34.2	and the authorities have said nothing about any potential motive
1:38.1	or link to the university.
1:40.8	The suspect is, we believe, 24 years old,
1:45.0	and the authorities, the police, the Providence police who are running this investigation, they have not officially released his name.
1:53.9	The CNN has gotten his name through people close to the investigation, which is how many times this information is released
2:04.3	to the press.
2:07.5	He was taken into custody early Sunday in Coventry, Rhode Island, about 20 miles from Brown's
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