PROVIDENCE, R.I. —

Mayor Craig Greenberg shares that his son Ben was at Brown University during the tragic shooting that took the lives of two students.

Ben Greenberg, the mayor’s youngest son, is a junior at Brown University. The mayor posted on social media that Ben had just returned to his room after the shooting occurred.

Mayor Greenberg shared that Ben and his roommates live near where the shooting took place. Ben and the others used furniture to barricade themselves, and they remained barricaded through the night.

The shooting took place around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon inside the university's Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, which houses labs, offices, classrooms and lecture halls.

Mayor Greenberg says that Ben was not injured during the shooting. He also shared

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