A Brown University professor told Ocean State Media the shooting on Saturday happened in her classroom during a review for a final exam, and that the attacker “yelled something” then opened fire.

Economics professor Rachel Friedberg was not in class at the time, rather, the course was being handled by a teaching assistant.

The teaching assistant survived the attack and told Friedberg what occurred. Friedberg explained , “The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top. He said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something — he couldn’t remember what he yelled — and started shooting.”

She added, “Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot. I don’t know if they’re the only o

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