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Sunday, December 14

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We're following the latest news this morning after a shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday. Officials say a person of interest has been detained, and the shelter in place order has been lifted on Brown's campus. Here's everything we know at this hour.

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police now appear to have apprehended the suspect.

University President Christina Paxson said she was told that 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting, but it was not clear if that victim was a student, she said.

Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic and stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, backyards and porches late into the night after the shooting erupted in the afternoon.

Hundreds of police officers scoured the Brown University campus along with nearby neighborhoods and poring over video overnight in the hunt for a shooter who opened fire in a classroom, killing two people and wounding nine others.

The search stretched into Sunday morning, well after the shooting erupted Saturday afternoon in the engineering building of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.

Shortly after 6 a.m., two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News the suspect they believe is responsible for the shooting is now in custody. More details were expected to be released at a 7 a.m. press conference.

Brown University President Christina H. Paxson issued a statement Saturday night following a mass shooting on the school’s campus left two people dead and eight others seriously injured.

“This is a deeply tragic day for Brown, our families and our local community,” she said. “There are truly no words that can express the deep sorrow we are feeling for the victims of the shooting that took place today at the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building.”

“We lost two community members today who were fatal victims of the shooting, and at this point, we know there are at least eight additional victims who were transported to the hospital,” she added. “In this moment, they are in critical but stable condition, but this is an evolving situation. Our hearts are with their families.”

Light snow moves in tonight through midday Sunday for southern New England.  Saturday remains chilly with highs in only in the upper 30s, 40s across the Cape, lights breezes from the southwest and lots of clouds.  A few flurries may fly early tonight in western Massachusetts or Connecticut. 

A general 1-3” of snow is expected by Sunday late morning and afternoon.  Around 1-2” for Boston, less to the north and west.  More snow and some mixing across southeastern Massachusetts, with 3-4” along the south coast, Cape Cod & islands.  Additional light snow is likely for outer Cape Cod due to ocean-effect Sunday night into Monday morning. 

Saturday night flurries will be around.  The accumulation starts up across western Connecticut & Massachusetts around midnight.  The snow quickly fills in across Boston to all of Cape Cod & Rhode Island. 

First-year Brown University Benjamin DiBella was in the Sciences Library at the Providence college 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 went to the messaging board Sidechat, “and saw dozens of messages all only minutes old noting panic and gunshots,” DiBella said.

One person was killed in a wrong-way crash on Route 128 in Danvers, Massachusetts, late Friday.

Massachusetts State Police said two cars were involved in the crash near exit 43 around 10 p.m. The person who died was a passenger in the vehicle that was traveling in the right direction.

The victim was not publicly identified.