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At around 11, police began to evacuate non-residential buildings around the university.
Brown senior Ben Marcus said he stayed up all night transferring students.
We've been awake all night, shuttling students back and forth to their dorms, to their apartments, from the gym where a lot of them were evacuated to a lot of my friends who ended up sheltering in just random places, needed rides back to their apartments to where they're living.
So it's definitely been a long night.
A person was finally detained at around 3.45 a.m.
on Sunday morning.
The FBI, local and state law enforcement worked together to track this person down.
It was nearly 6 a.m.
before Brown announced the shelter-in-place order lifted.
The university has since said that it has canceled all finals and many students are already on their way back home for Christmas break.
Yeah, the information has been slow to get out.
Authorities have been pretty cautious because of the ongoing investigation.
Law enforcement did yesterday pick up a person of interest, though.
According to the Washington Post, sources briefed on the investigation say police picked up a 24-year-old Wisconsin man at a hotel about 30 miles outside of Providence.
Police allegedly found two firearms in his possession.
NBC News reports that the police were looking into the man's mental health history and potential ties to the university, but then late last night, officials announced that they were letting that person of interest go.
The Rhode Island Attorney General said that the evidence initially pointed in the direction of that man, but that evidence now points in a different direction.
Mayor Smiley said at the same press conference that he still believes the community is safe, though this obviously means the shooter is still at large somewhere.
Yeah, in Washington, President Trump paid respects to the victims in the Brown University shooting attack and to others who were also victimized this weekend.
Of course, it didn't take long for this tragedy to get political.