🚨BREAKING: The person of interest in the deadly shooting at Brown University has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson. Erickson served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army from 2021 to 2024 and does not have a criminal record. He wrote about transferring to Brown University for the Fall 2025 semester. His social media activity reflects support for gender equality and migrant rights, and his voter registration shows affiliation with the Democrat DC Statehood Party. One of his older posts suggests that he had interest in anarchist politics.