Overview
- The university issued a 4:22 p.m. local alert reporting an active armed assailant near the Barus & Holley complex that houses engineering and physics.
- Students, faculty, and staff were ordered to run, hide, or shelter in place with instructions to lock doors and silence phones.
- Police and emergency medical crews responded with ambulances, and a 5:11 p.m. update urged the campus community to remain sheltered.
- Providence police said multiple people were shot, while some outlets citing scanner traffic reported about twenty, a number not officially confirmed.
- Initial claims of an arrest were later corrected by local media, which reported the suspect remained active on campus.