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Coventry is an interesting choice for a hotel. In my opinion, I think it’s where someone would go if they wanted to get out of Providence and to somewhere more “rural” or “country” in RI. I say this in quotation marks because you’re never truly that rural or far from Providence anywhere in RI.
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What is your take on why this person chose that location for a hotel? Maybe they had the hotel before the shooting and just went back to it. If they had a car and drove to the shooting, it does seem odd to stay that close. If they didn't have a car and took an Uber, then I wonder if that driver called it in because the video was not released for like 8 or so hours so he had plenty of time to get away before anyone knew what the gunman looked like.
Thank you so much. He is an engineering major and was in the building when it happened. He is shaken, but not physically injured. There is a video of him and his friends/classmates being found by police circulating. It’s hard to watch and to see the sheer terror in all of their faces. Thank you again for everything. This is why websleuths means so much to me. Just good people who want to help.
ABC News said the person in custody is not a Brown University student. The person was taken into custody based on a tip to law enforcement, a source with knowledge about the investigation told ABC News.
Person of interest in Brown shooting detained at RI hotel with 2 guns, ABC reports
Two people died after a shooting on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
I know exactly where this is. I am honestly surprised he didn’t try to leave the state altogether. He wasn’t that far from the CT border in Coventry.
Bus service is very limited in RI, especially at night. I don't think there is any bus service to the area in Coventry off Route 95 where there are hotels. These are chain hotels where access is by car. He would have needed a car. I think using a ride share service to this location would be unusual. Coventry is south of Providence, an area that has a rural ambience.
Thankful he is safe.
The shooting happened just after 4pm though so would buses be running in the hour or so after that?
The area where there are hotels is a development named the Centre of New England. There are free standing stores, including a Walmart and a BJ'S, some restaurants, including a Cracker Barrel, and a group of low rise condominiums. There's a bus that goes there, but I don't think there's any weekend service. There's no direct service from Providence, either. I think that a rider has to transfer at least once if they're going from Providence.
A TA and 60 students were in a large classroom when the shooter entered, yelled and started shooting. A third of the students and the TA were able to hide behind a desk, another third ran out of the room, but the rest seated in the middle couldn't escape and were hit the hardest. It doesn't appear that a teacher was targeted.
