WASHINGTON — Eva Erickson, a doctoral candidate at Brown University who was the runner-up earlier this year on the CBS reality competition show “Survivor,” said she left her lab in the university’s engineering building just minutes before gunfire rang out.

The deadly Brown University shooting erupted Saturday afternoon in the engineering building of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.

Nine people with gunshot wounds were taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where one was in critical condition. Six required intensive care but were not getting worse and two were stable, hospital spokesperson Kelly Brennan said.

Erickson, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering and fluid and thermal science, recounted on social media how she had been working in the building where

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