'Shooter on campus, we hid in the dark': How fear & sirens took over Brown University; students narrate 'nightmare'

A quiet winter afternoon at Brown University turned into hours of fear and uncertainty after gunshots rang out on campus, forcing students to hide in darkened rooms as police launched a massive manhunt for the attacker. Shortly after an emergency alert warned of an active shooter, students across the Ivy League campus in Providence were ordered to shelter in place. "We closed the door, had the lights off, and went under desks," the New York Times quoted Chiang-Heng Chien, a doctoral student saying. They remained in darkness for hours just a block from the Barus & Holley building, where an unidentified attacker killed two people and injured at least nine others, with police saying the gunfire erupted inside a first-floor classroom in the engineering complex. Within minutes, si