Brown Scholar / ‘Survivor’ Star
Lightning Would not Strike Twice …
Staying in City Amid Seek for Shooter
Revealed
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“Survivor” Season 48 contestant Eva Erickson narrowly dodged the gunman who opened fireplace at Brown College Saturday afternoon, however she says she’s not overly apprehensive about one other capturing there.
Take a look at our interview — the Ph.D. candidate says she feels “secure” whereas hunkered down at her off-campus residence in Windfall, Rhode Island as a result of she assumes the assailant is “lengthy gone,” reasoning … “Lightning does not strike twice in the identical place.” However, she notes the concept is “horrible” as a result of it feels just like the shooter has gotten away.
There’s an intense manhunt for the gunman by native and federal authorities, and the FBI is providing a $50,000 reward for info within the ongoing case. Windfall Mayor Brett Smiley instructed ABC Information Monday authorities “proceed to obtain zero credible threats to our group, Brown or the broader group,” which he is definitely caught some flack for because the suspect stays on the lam.
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Whereas Eva feels secure total, she tells TMZ she and her friends have simply as a lot info as most people, and the lack of information concerning the assailant has everybody “on edge.” She is pining for the solutions to easy questions — how and the way such a tragedy may have occurred.
One factor she’s certain of — one thing wants to vary. Eva says it is “insane” college students are so weak to gun violence in America, noting … “I simply needed to go to high school and study and have this group and be secure. And now that is been taken from me.” Whereas she says she does not have the solutions, she seems at lawmakers who’re higher geared up to advocate for gun security rules.
Fairly than instantly flee the realm after the horrific capturing, Eva stayed again and helped her associates and hockey teammates — she’s captain of the lads’s membership hockey group — transfer out of their dorms, and she or he plans on being again residence together with her people in Minnesota for Christmas.
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She was additionally capable of unfold some cheer whereas bullets terrorized college students on one other a part of campus, telling TMZ she met some “Survivor” followers who have been locked down together with her within the faculty’s indoor monitor and basketball facility. She says she was thrilled to “carry a smile to any individual’s face as we’re all on this actually scary state of affairs.”
And in case you’re questioning if putting 2nd on the hit CBS sequence mentally ready her for practically coming involved with a shooter — the reply is a tough no. The scholar and athlete explains she by no means felt unsafe on the present, and nothing may have ready her for being close to such terror.
Erica is working towards her Ph.D. in engineering and fluid and thermal science at Brown. She defined on social media she made a last-minute choice to depart her analysis workplace to go to the fitness center — which she by no means does within the afternoon — and consequently missed the gunman by 5 minutes.
