Brown University freshman David Novogrodsky had planned to be in the seven-story Barus and Holley engineering and physics building on the Providence, Rhode Island campus Saturday when a gunman burst into a room, killed two students and injured nine others.
The Laramie High School graduate and mechanical engineering major is in the building almost every day, he said in an interview Tuesday. He had received an invitation to be there on Saturday to work on the pedals of a Formula race car being designed for a college competition.
Instead, he went with friends to a math study session in his dorm…