Brown University in Providence was shattered by a mass shooting in the Barus and Holley building, where 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson allegedly killed two students and wounded nine others during a crowded class, triggering an all-night campus lockdown and a huge manhunt across the campus and surrounding city.Authorities later identified Erickson, a Wisconsin native and Army infantry veteran with sniper training and firearms instruction experience, as a detained person of interest, while campus leaders like Christina Paxson coordinated with Providence officials including Brett Smiley, Dan McKee and Oscar Perez, the FBI and victim support teams to secure the area, cancel final exams and begin intensive medical and psychological support for traumatized students and staff.As investigators searched for a motive, classmates and acquaintances such as Ella, Grace Jennings, Kendall Turner, Emma Ferraro, Eva Erickson, Joseph Oduro, Erim Ozcan and Bryce Jankowski described harrowing moments under fire and a previously quiet, academically gifted soldier, fueling renewed national debate over the Second Amendment, gun regulation and the disturbing fact that this attack is among nearly 400 mass shootings in the U.S. this year according to the Gun Violence Archive.