Andrew Sage

On Saturday afternoon, a mask shooter entered an economics class at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and opened fire with a concealed handgun, killing two people, injuring nine others, all students.

About 30 minutes after the shooting started, the university police announced a suspect was in custody.

20 minutes later, they retracted that statement.

Then, university police reported shots fired in another section of campus, which they also later retracted.

President Trump posted on Truth Social, "...I've been briefed on the shooting that took place at Brown University in Rhode Island.

The FBI is on the scene.

The suspect is in custody.

God bless the victims and the families of the victims."

This, too, was untrue, as the university released a statement about an hour later clarifying that the shooter was not in custody and that over 400 officers were on the scene to assist in the investigation.

The next morning, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced that a new person of interest was detained.

The Providence police chief told NBC that they were confident that the suspect was the shooter.

Major news outlets later named this individual, though later that evening, this quote-unquote person of interest was released, with the Rhode Island Attorney General saying that the evidence, quote, now points in a different direction, unquote.

The shooter currently remains unidentified and at large.

On Sunday night in Sydney, Australia, a father and son, Sajid and Naveed Akram, coordinated a targeted attack against Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach.

15 people were killed in the shooting.

Victims include a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor.

24 victims remain hospitalized.

A bystander named Ahmed al-Ahmed, a son of Syrian refugees, charged one of the gunmen and wrestled his gun away.

Ahmed was later shot multiple times but survived and has been labeled a hero by the Australian Prime Minister.

Police say that a vehicle used by the gunmen contained homemade Islamic State flags and improvised explosive devices.