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That looks exactly like the bandage you would put on somebody's hand after he received an intravenous drip through the hand.
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 1:18 am
How Florida lost track of 30,000 students, a ‘cautionary tale’ for vouchers
The state’s auditor general found “a myriad of accountability problems” in the nation’s largest voucher program.
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EST Today at 5:00 a.m. EST
By Lauren Lumpkin
After Florida cleared the way in 2023 for any family in the state to get a taxpayer-funded school voucher regardless of income, students signed up in droves. Enrollment in the voucher program has almost doubled to half a million children.
But by the end of the 2024-25 school year, the program cost $398 million more than expected, according to a recently released report from Florida’s auditor general. And when students switched between public schools and voucher-funded programs, tax dollars did not move with them as lawmakers had promised.
On any given day, Florida’s education department did not know where 30,000 students were going to school and could not account for the $270 million in taxpayer funds it took to support them, according to the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education.
The findings demonstrate that the bigger these programs get, the harder they can be to manage — putting billions of public dollars at risk as other states are poised to take part in a similar new federal program, observers said.
“This money was money the school districts should have received and never did until this all came to light,” said Norín Dollard, senior policy analyst and Kids Count director at the Florida Policy Institute, a think tank that has been critical of vouchers. “Maybe that could have been some more teachers, it could have been enhanced curriculum. It couldn’t happen because the funds were not there to do it.”
With roughly 500,000 students and $4 billion in funding last school year, Florida’s school voucher system is the biggest in the country. It has two main programs: the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, which was created in 2001 and gives businesses a tax break for donating to nonprofits that administer voucher programs, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship.
Florida’s auditor general found “a myriad of accountability challenges” with the Family Empowerment Scholarship that was created in 2019 to fund vouchers, known as education savings accounts, or ESAs, that can be used to pay tuition or other school-related expenses. It shortchanged Florida’s public schools by $230 million, providing warning signs for similar programs.
“This is a cautionary tale for other states,” said state Sen. Don Gaetz (R), who supports the state’s voucher programs but has proposed an overhaul to the way they are run. “We cannot walk away from these problems. We can’t fail to pass remedial legislation, or these problems will get bigger, and the trust of taxpayers in this program will begin to diminish.”
For much of the 35-year history of school vouchers, programs have largely been limited to low-income families or students with disabilities. But, with Arizona’s decision in 2022 to make vouchers available to all students, came an explosion of programs across the country that are open to everyone. About a dozen conservative states have adopted universal or near-universal programs.
School vouchers also have become a pillar of the Republican education agenda. In July, President Donald Trump signed into law the nation’s first federal voucher program, estimated to cost $26 billion over 10 years. States may opt into the plan, which will give Americans a 100 percent tax credit — all their money back — when they donate to state-based scholarship programs. It takes effect in 2027.
Supporters say many public schools are failing children, and that families should be able to choose another option, such as private, religious or home-school, and use public dollars to do so. Opponents point to mixed academic outcomes for children and argue these programs siphon money from stretched-thin public schools — the consequences of which are starting to become clear.
In Florida, public school districts are contending with declining enrollment, program cuts and the possibility of closing schools, said Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association.
Unlike voucher programs in other states, funding for the Florida Empowerment Scholarship program is commingled with other public education funding, making it difficult to track how dollars are being spent.
“The money’s all being scrambled together in one appropriation,” Gaetz said. “Then the Department of Education is having to unscramble that money, and then make sure it gets to the right place at the right time to benefit the right students.”
But that doesn’t always happen, according to the audit report. In Florida, the state education department sends money to scholarship funding organizations, nonprofits that administer the vouchers. The audit found that the state sent money to the nonprofits before confirming whether students would be using vouchers or attending public schools. As students switched between schools throughout the year, the education department counted some children more than once, then did not do enough to stop or prevent duplicate payments, the auditor said.
Hundreds of voucher accounts for children with disabilities were overfunded, beyond limits set by state law, by a total $2.3 million.
Cassie Edwards, a spokesperson for Florida’s education department, said in an email to The Washington Post that the agency at one point had to pause voucher payments for some students as it figured out where 30,000 of the state’s estimated 3.2 million students were going to school. This year, those students have been matched to the correct programs, she said.
In a Nov. 14 letter to the auditor general, Florida Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas said the department took extra steps to identify potential duplicate student counts, but that verifying enrollment records was a challenge. The department is adopting a “more rigorous process” this year.
“It is important to note that no state has administered a school choice or scholarship program as large as Florida’s,” Kamoutsas wrote. “The Department acknowledges that, while the popularity and growth of the scholarship programs evidence their value and need, the administrative systems supporting these programs must keep pace with their implementation.”
In cases where a student appears to be enrolled in both a public school and a private school or home-school scholarship program, their ESA will not be funded until the family can obtain signed proof the child does not attend a public school, said Scott Kent, a spokesperson for the scholarship funding organization Step Up for Students.
Critics see the auditor’s findings as symptoms of the program’s rapid growth with few guardrails.
“When we don’t have this fiscal accountability and transparency for these massive voucher programs that are ballooning every year, it’s a real problem,” said Qubilah Huddleston, the equitable school funding lead at EdTrust, a left-leaning think tank. “For the states that have recently universalized, like Texas and Tennessee and other states that could soon see vouchers as a result of the federal program, they need to view Florida as a cautionary tale of what happened.”
Meanwhile, Gaetz has put forward a bill he said will increase transparency and fix the issues outlined in the audit — including conducting monthly checks of where students are going to school and assigning each voucher student an ID number that can be cross-checked with public school enrollment lists.
He is also proposing disentangling ESA program funds from public-school dollars. The auditor general made a similar recommendation, which the education department has backed, according to Kamoutsas’s letter.
Robert Enlow, president and chief executive of the pro-voucher group EdChoice, suggested that Florida instead modernize the way it tracks students.
“This is not an indictment on the quality or the effectiveness of the programs; this is an indictment on how bad government management can be,” he said about the audit report. “This is largely a technological problem that relates to double-counting that many other states have handled.”
In the meantime, some Florida parents are worried. Yasmina White, 35, whose daughters attend public school in Jacksonville, said school choice should not come at the expense of the traditional system.
“When you’re making something more attractive, you’re pushing more families out of the public school system,” White said. Amid budget woes, her district, Duval County, closed five schools this year. She supports school choice, but “it’s frustrating because my taxes should go towards my public schools.”
Spar, president of the teachers union, said class sizes are getting bigger. Some music and art courses, even AP classes, have been eliminated because there isn’t enough money.
“It really is having a financial drain on public schools,” he said of the voucher program. “It makes it hard for us to make sure that our students are getting the education that they deserve and need.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educatio ... ers-audit/
The state’s auditor general found “a myriad of accountability problems” in the nation’s largest voucher program.
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EST Today at 5:00 a.m. EST
By Lauren Lumpkin
After Florida cleared the way in 2023 for any family in the state to get a taxpayer-funded school voucher regardless of income, students signed up in droves. Enrollment in the voucher program has almost doubled to half a million children.
But by the end of the 2024-25 school year, the program cost $398 million more than expected, according to a recently released report from Florida’s auditor general. And when students switched between public schools and voucher-funded programs, tax dollars did not move with them as lawmakers had promised.
On any given day, Florida’s education department did not know where 30,000 students were going to school and could not account for the $270 million in taxpayer funds it took to support them, according to the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education.
The findings demonstrate that the bigger these programs get, the harder they can be to manage — putting billions of public dollars at risk as other states are poised to take part in a similar new federal program, observers said.
“This money was money the school districts should have received and never did until this all came to light,” said Norín Dollard, senior policy analyst and Kids Count director at the Florida Policy Institute, a think tank that has been critical of vouchers. “Maybe that could have been some more teachers, it could have been enhanced curriculum. It couldn’t happen because the funds were not there to do it.”
With roughly 500,000 students and $4 billion in funding last school year, Florida’s school voucher system is the biggest in the country. It has two main programs: the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, which was created in 2001 and gives businesses a tax break for donating to nonprofits that administer voucher programs, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship.
Florida’s auditor general found “a myriad of accountability challenges” with the Family Empowerment Scholarship that was created in 2019 to fund vouchers, known as education savings accounts, or ESAs, that can be used to pay tuition or other school-related expenses. It shortchanged Florida’s public schools by $230 million, providing warning signs for similar programs.
“This is a cautionary tale for other states,” said state Sen. Don Gaetz (R), who supports the state’s voucher programs but has proposed an overhaul to the way they are run. “We cannot walk away from these problems. We can’t fail to pass remedial legislation, or these problems will get bigger, and the trust of taxpayers in this program will begin to diminish.”
For much of the 35-year history of school vouchers, programs have largely been limited to low-income families or students with disabilities. But, with Arizona’s decision in 2022 to make vouchers available to all students, came an explosion of programs across the country that are open to everyone. About a dozen conservative states have adopted universal or near-universal programs.
School vouchers also have become a pillar of the Republican education agenda. In July, President Donald Trump signed into law the nation’s first federal voucher program, estimated to cost $26 billion over 10 years. States may opt into the plan, which will give Americans a 100 percent tax credit — all their money back — when they donate to state-based scholarship programs. It takes effect in 2027.
Supporters say many public schools are failing children, and that families should be able to choose another option, such as private, religious or home-school, and use public dollars to do so. Opponents point to mixed academic outcomes for children and argue these programs siphon money from stretched-thin public schools — the consequences of which are starting to become clear.
In Florida, public school districts are contending with declining enrollment, program cuts and the possibility of closing schools, said Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association.
Unlike voucher programs in other states, funding for the Florida Empowerment Scholarship program is commingled with other public education funding, making it difficult to track how dollars are being spent.
“The money’s all being scrambled together in one appropriation,” Gaetz said. “Then the Department of Education is having to unscramble that money, and then make sure it gets to the right place at the right time to benefit the right students.”
But that doesn’t always happen, according to the audit report. In Florida, the state education department sends money to scholarship funding organizations, nonprofits that administer the vouchers. The audit found that the state sent money to the nonprofits before confirming whether students would be using vouchers or attending public schools. As students switched between schools throughout the year, the education department counted some children more than once, then did not do enough to stop or prevent duplicate payments, the auditor said.
Hundreds of voucher accounts for children with disabilities were overfunded, beyond limits set by state law, by a total $2.3 million.
Cassie Edwards, a spokesperson for Florida’s education department, said in an email to The Washington Post that the agency at one point had to pause voucher payments for some students as it figured out where 30,000 of the state’s estimated 3.2 million students were going to school. This year, those students have been matched to the correct programs, she said.
In a Nov. 14 letter to the auditor general, Florida Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas said the department took extra steps to identify potential duplicate student counts, but that verifying enrollment records was a challenge. The department is adopting a “more rigorous process” this year.
“It is important to note that no state has administered a school choice or scholarship program as large as Florida’s,” Kamoutsas wrote. “The Department acknowledges that, while the popularity and growth of the scholarship programs evidence their value and need, the administrative systems supporting these programs must keep pace with their implementation.”
In cases where a student appears to be enrolled in both a public school and a private school or home-school scholarship program, their ESA will not be funded until the family can obtain signed proof the child does not attend a public school, said Scott Kent, a spokesperson for the scholarship funding organization Step Up for Students.
Critics see the auditor’s findings as symptoms of the program’s rapid growth with few guardrails.
“When we don’t have this fiscal accountability and transparency for these massive voucher programs that are ballooning every year, it’s a real problem,” said Qubilah Huddleston, the equitable school funding lead at EdTrust, a left-leaning think tank. “For the states that have recently universalized, like Texas and Tennessee and other states that could soon see vouchers as a result of the federal program, they need to view Florida as a cautionary tale of what happened.”
Meanwhile, Gaetz has put forward a bill he said will increase transparency and fix the issues outlined in the audit — including conducting monthly checks of where students are going to school and assigning each voucher student an ID number that can be cross-checked with public school enrollment lists.
He is also proposing disentangling ESA program funds from public-school dollars. The auditor general made a similar recommendation, which the education department has backed, according to Kamoutsas’s letter.
Robert Enlow, president and chief executive of the pro-voucher group EdChoice, suggested that Florida instead modernize the way it tracks students.
“This is not an indictment on the quality or the effectiveness of the programs; this is an indictment on how bad government management can be,” he said about the audit report. “This is largely a technological problem that relates to double-counting that many other states have handled.”
In the meantime, some Florida parents are worried. Yasmina White, 35, whose daughters attend public school in Jacksonville, said school choice should not come at the expense of the traditional system.
“When you’re making something more attractive, you’re pushing more families out of the public school system,” White said. Amid budget woes, her district, Duval County, closed five schools this year. She supports school choice, but “it’s frustrating because my taxes should go towards my public schools.”
Spar, president of the teachers union, said class sizes are getting bigger. Some music and art courses, even AP classes, have been eliminated because there isn’t enough money.
“It really is having a financial drain on public schools,” he said of the voucher program. “It makes it hard for us to make sure that our students are getting the education that they deserve and need.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educatio ... ers-audit/
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 3:30 am
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Democrat Eileen Higgins won the nonpartisan Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party’s nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/09 ... n1diwaws00
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Democrat Eileen Higgins won the nonpartisan Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party’s nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/09 ... n1diwaws00
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 4:12 am
Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
5:32 PM · Dec 10, 2025
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
5:32 PM · Dec 10, 2025
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:43 am
David S. Bernstein
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If you declare “racial equity” in government to be a “dubious end,” YOU MIGHT BE THE RACIST (HUD letter to City of Boston, via Wash Post)
@dbernstein.bsky.social
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If you declare “racial equity” in government to be a “dubious end,” YOU MIGHT BE THE RACIST (HUD letter to City of Boston, via Wash Post)
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:01 am
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RFKJr is at the airport doing chin-ups. #measles
‘South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine’
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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kris
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RFKJr is at the airport doing chin-ups. #measles
‘South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine’
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-n ... rcna248435
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2025 12:26 am
Ron Filipkowski
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Beware misinformation online.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2025 12:32 am
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Eight Others Shot at Brown University
Students remained locked in their dorms and classrooms as the police were searching for the shooter, described as a man dressed in black. The eight injured victims were in critical condition.
Updated
Dec. 13, 2025, 7:01 p.m. ET29 minutes ago
Hannah ZieglerRylee Kirk and Mitch Smith
Here’s what to know.
Two people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday, officials said. Three hours after it began, students continued to hide in their dorms and classrooms on the campus in Providence, R.I., as police officers searched for a man dressed in black.
The injured people were in critical but stable condition at local hospitals, officials said during an evening news conference. It was unclear how many of them were students. Rodney Chatman, Brown’s police chief, described the shooting investigation as “a very fluid situation.”
Here are the details:
Where it happened: The university told students and faculty members in an alert at 4:22 p.m. to lock their doors, silence phones and stay hidden because of reports of an active shooter at the Barus and Holley engineering building.
No one in custody: The authorities said the gunman exited the engineering building on the Hope Street side. They don’t know what kind of weapon was used or have any other information about him, and are looking for video that could help in the manhunt. “Preliminarily, all we have is a suspect that was a male dressed in black,” said Timothy O’Hara, the deputy Providence police chief.
Chaotic situation: University officials sent at least two incorrect alerts to students and faculty members, saying at one point that a suspect had been taken into custody before reversing that, then reporting around 5:30 p.m. that more shots had been fired off campus close to Governor Street. They later backtracked and said that report was also incorrect.
Officials react: President Trump said on social media that he had been briefed on the shooting and that the F.B.I. was on the scene. “God bless the victims and the families of the victims!” he said. Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island said state law enforcement and emergency management officials were also responding.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/13 ... =url-share
Students remained locked in their dorms and classrooms as the police were searching for the shooter, described as a man dressed in black. The eight injured victims were in critical condition.
Updated
Dec. 13, 2025, 7:01 p.m. ET29 minutes ago
Hannah ZieglerRylee Kirk and Mitch Smith
Here’s what to know.
Two people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday, officials said. Three hours after it began, students continued to hide in their dorms and classrooms on the campus in Providence, R.I., as police officers searched for a man dressed in black.
The injured people were in critical but stable condition at local hospitals, officials said during an evening news conference. It was unclear how many of them were students. Rodney Chatman, Brown’s police chief, described the shooting investigation as “a very fluid situation.”
Here are the details:
Where it happened: The university told students and faculty members in an alert at 4:22 p.m. to lock their doors, silence phones and stay hidden because of reports of an active shooter at the Barus and Holley engineering building.
No one in custody: The authorities said the gunman exited the engineering building on the Hope Street side. They don’t know what kind of weapon was used or have any other information about him, and are looking for video that could help in the manhunt. “Preliminarily, all we have is a suspect that was a male dressed in black,” said Timothy O’Hara, the deputy Providence police chief.
Chaotic situation: University officials sent at least two incorrect alerts to students and faculty members, saying at one point that a suspect had been taken into custody before reversing that, then reporting around 5:30 p.m. that more shots had been fired off campus close to Governor Street. They later backtracked and said that report was also incorrect.
Officials react: President Trump said on social media that he had been briefed on the shooting and that the F.B.I. was on the scene. “God bless the victims and the families of the victims!” he said. Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island said state law enforcement and emergency management officials were also responding.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2025 11:28 pm
Person of interest in Brown U. shooting is 24, from Wisconsin, officials say
Updated
December 14, 2025 at 6:23 p.m. EST
The person of interest authorities took into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin, two people briefed on the investigation told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. He was taken into custody at a hotel about 15 miles from campus in Providence, authorities said.
Erickson has not been named as a suspect or charged in connection with the Saturday attack, which left two dead and nine others wounded. Officials have repeatedly referred to the person in custody only as a “person of interest,” a term investigators use to refer to someone whom they wish to question and believe has relevant information. Agents recovered two firearms in his possession, including one equipped with a laser sight attachment, one of the people briefed on the investigation said.
A gunman opened fire inside a campus engineering building on Saturday before fleeing, authorities said. A teaching assistant and senior at the university told The Post that he had just wrapped up a study session in the Barus and Holley building when he heard screaming, several loud bangs, and a man dressed in black burst in to his room yelling something unintelligible, carrying the “longest gun I’ve ever seen in my life.”
After carrying out the attack, authorities say the shooter was seen exiting the east side of the building where the campus meets downtown Providence, prompting hundreds of officers to conduct a sprawling manhunt overnight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-suspect/
Updated
December 14, 2025 at 6:23 p.m. EST
The person of interest authorities took into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin, two people briefed on the investigation told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. He was taken into custody at a hotel about 15 miles from campus in Providence, authorities said.
Erickson has not been named as a suspect or charged in connection with the Saturday attack, which left two dead and nine others wounded. Officials have repeatedly referred to the person in custody only as a “person of interest,” a term investigators use to refer to someone whom they wish to question and believe has relevant information. Agents recovered two firearms in his possession, including one equipped with a laser sight attachment, one of the people briefed on the investigation said.
A gunman opened fire inside a campus engineering building on Saturday before fleeing, authorities said. A teaching assistant and senior at the university told The Post that he had just wrapped up a study session in the Barus and Holley building when he heard screaming, several loud bangs, and a man dressed in black burst in to his room yelling something unintelligible, carrying the “longest gun I’ve ever seen in my life.”
After carrying out the attack, authorities say the shooter was seen exiting the east side of the building where the campus meets downtown Providence, prompting hundreds of officers to conduct a sprawling manhunt overnight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-suspect/
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2025 12:02 am
Investigators at Wisconsin family home of Brown University person of interest
Patrick Marley
and
Jeremy Roebuck
Several men in plain clothes were seen at a home in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, linked to the man law enforcement officials have told The Washington Post is the person of interest in the shooting at Brown University.
Those officials identified the man as Benjamin Erickson, 24, of Wisconsin. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose details of the investigation. Erickson has not been named a suspect or charged with crimes related to the attack.
Plain clothes investigators left the home, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee, around 4:20 p.m. and got into a black SUV. One with a police lanyard said they were with the FBI and told a reporter not to knock on the door.
They had been at the house for about an hour, neighbor Greg Ehlers said.
The Ericksons have lived in the home for more than 20 years, Ehlers said.
“They’re good neighbors,” he added.
Ehlers said he did not know Benjamin Erickson well because his children were in different social circles, but said he would say hello when he saw Ehlers in the neighborhood. Ehlers said he heard Erickson was going to Brown but did not know what he was studying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-suspect/
Patrick Marley
and
Jeremy Roebuck
Several men in plain clothes were seen at a home in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, linked to the man law enforcement officials have told The Washington Post is the person of interest in the shooting at Brown University.
Those officials identified the man as Benjamin Erickson, 24, of Wisconsin. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose details of the investigation. Erickson has not been named a suspect or charged with crimes related to the attack.
Plain clothes investigators left the home, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee, around 4:20 p.m. and got into a black SUV. One with a police lanyard said they were with the FBI and told a reporter not to knock on the door.
They had been at the house for about an hour, neighbor Greg Ehlers said.
The Ericksons have lived in the home for more than 20 years, Ehlers said.
“They’re good neighbors,” he added.
Ehlers said he did not know Benjamin Erickson well because his children were in different social circles, but said he would say hello when he saw Ehlers in the neighborhood. Ehlers said he heard Erickson was going to Brown but did not know what he was studying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-suspect/
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2025 12:19 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2025 9:41 am
Authorities seek Brown University shooting suspect as they release person of interest
Updated
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 a.m. EST25 min ago
The search for a suspect in the Brown University shooting stretched into a third day Monday, as students grieved two killed classmates and nine others who were injured. Late Sunday, authorities said they would be releasing a person of interest. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha said that while “some degree of evidence” had pointed to that person, it now “points in a different direction.” Brown said it doubled its security staffing but that there is no immediate threat to the campus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... t-manhunt/
Updated
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 a.m. EST25 min ago
The search for a suspect in the Brown University shooting stretched into a third day Monday, as students grieved two killed classmates and nine others who were injured. Late Sunday, authorities said they would be releasing a person of interest. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha said that while “some degree of evidence” had pointed to that person, it now “points in a different direction.” Brown said it doubled its security staffing but that there is no immediate threat to the campus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... t-manhunt/
37 Dolls For Your Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
There are reasons to wait before flipping out over some preliminary report