Brown University shooting: Suspect identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson — who is he?

Police person identified 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson arsenic the fishy successful custody for the Brown University shooting that killed 2 radical and injured 9 others connected Saturday, according to 3 elder instrumentality enforcement officials who briefed NBC News.Public records uncover Erickson presently resides successful Washington, DC, wherever helium was registered to ballot successful 2023 with a "statehood" enactment affiliation. Previous records amusement helium was registered to ballot successful Wisconsin successful 2020, listing "military" nether elector information.Army Spokesperson LTC Ruth Castro provided details of Erickson's subject service: "Benjamin W Erickson was an Infantryman (11B) successful the Regular Army from May 2021 to November 2024.

He has nary deployments and near the Army successful the fertile of specialist."Initial searches bespeak nary anterior transgression grounds for Erickson. Law enforcement officials are investigating what they judge could beryllium an extended intelligence wellness past for the suspect. Investigators are besides exploring imaginable connections betwixt Erickson and Brown University.