A 2022 East Grand Rapids graduate is back home in Michigan after experiencing the shooting at Brown University over the weekend during final exam week, describing the incident as a wake-up call about campus safety across the nation.
Alex Bruce, now a senior at Brown and a captain of the figure skating team, was in his dormitory next to the engineering building when the shooting occurred around 4 p.m. Saturday. He was working on a final project for one of his senior seminars when he received a group text warning of an active shooter on campus.
“I look at my phone for a second and I see that there’s a text in our dorm group chat saying that there’s an active shooter in Barus and Holley, which is right next door to my dorm, which is the engineering building, or the engineering building that was attacked,” Bruce said…