Brown University students describe uncertainty and fear in lockdown after shooting

First-year Brown University student Benjamin DiBella was in the Sciences Library at the Providence, Rhode Island, school Saturday afternoon when someone yelled that there was an active shooter on campus

First-year Brown University student Benjamin DiBella was in the Sciences Library at the Providence, Rhode Island, school Saturday afternoon when someone yelled that there was an active shooter on campus.

There was — but in a nearby building, Barus & Holley, where a gunman opened fire on people in a classroom, authorities said, killing two and wounding nine others. The manhunt for the shooter was ongoing early Sunday.

DiBella said he went to the messaging board Sidechat “and saw dozens of messages, all only minutes old, noting panic and gunshots.”

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What followed was a lockdown on the ninth floor, where doors were barricaded and people scrolled news feeds for information over the next 2 1/2 hours, he said.