“Survivor 48 ”star Eva Erickson reveals she narrowly prevented Brown College capturing: ‘So extraordinarily fortunate’

Survivor 48 runner-up Eva Erickson confirms she is secure regardless of being current on the Brown College campus when pictures rang out within the college's engineering constructing.

On Saturday afternoon, a shooter wearing all black killed no less than two individuals and wounded 9 others throughout remaining exams on the Ivy League campus, based on the Related Press. Hours later, the Survivor alum — who can also be a doctoral candidate at Brown — took to Instagram to reassure followers that she was doing okay amid the horrifying incident.

"I’m secure," Erickson started her preliminary Instagram Tales replace. "Sure, my workplace at Brown is within the constructing of the capturing however I used to be very fortunate I left my lab quarter-hour previous to the energetic shooter alert."

She later shared further particulars in a video posted from lockdown on the college's Athletic Middle.

"The energetic shooter warning initially went out at 4:22 p.m.," Erickson started. "The capturing happened in [the] Barus and Holley [Building], which is the constructing that my workplace is in. I’m so, so extraordinarily fortunate that I used to be very unproductive at work in the present day, as a result of I used to be in my workplace in Barus and Holley in that space till 4 p.m."

Erickson defined that she left work to go to the health club on a sudden impulse.

"I left, and about 20 minutes later, we get the warning," she shared. "There’s now a rumor that the warning was despatched out about quarter-hour after the capturing had began. I used to be leaving the constructing inside 5 minutes of the shooter coming in."

As for the lockdown expertise, Erickson shared that lights had been turned off and shades had been pulled down within the health club, as everybody sheltered in place.

"Everybody sat on the bottom getting tons of texts, calls, calling our mother and father, telling individuals we love them, texting all of our associates," she defined. The lights didn’t come on till 4 hours later. "They stated that they had been going to maneuver us. We’re in a position now to look out the home windows. There are SWAT groups throughout. And so they have us take all of our belongings, register who we’re, the place we had been, get a wristband, they usually walked us two buildings over to go to the OMAC, in order that’s the place I at the moment am."

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On the time of her video message, it was 11 p.m., and the shooter was nonetheless at giant.

"We have now no solutions,” Erickson advised followers. “Don’t know if we’re going to be right here in a single day. Do what we gotta do to be secure. I actually respect the ideas and prayers that everybody’s sending, however we want greater than ideas and prayers. That is ridiculous that as faculty college students…now we have to fret about somebody capturing up our lecture rooms.”

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As of Sunday afternoon, an individual of curiosity has been taken into custody by police. Throughout a information convention following the arrest, Windfall police chief Col. Oscar Perez stated the person is of their 20s and that investigators will not be looking for anybody else. He declined to say whether or not the detained particular person had any connection to Brown, and authorities have but to launch details about a possible motive.

Erickson's video was met with loads of help and well-wishes, with loads of followers and fellow Survivor alums chiming in.

"Simply no phrases," commented Survivor 48 winner Kyle Fraser. "I’m so so glad you’re secure."

"Sending love gentle to these affected," added season 48 competitor Saiounia "Sai" Hughley.

Wrote season 49 participant Steven Ramm, "So glad to listen to you’re secure. That will need to have been so disorienting and terrifying."

Earlier this 12 months, Erickson had a memorable run on Survivor 48, making historical past because the present's first brazenly autistic competitor. After an eventful season that noticed her convey host Jeff Probst to tears and win a high-stakes fire-making contest, Erickson got here in second place to Fraser. She is at the moment a Ph.D. candidate in engineering and fluid and thermal science at Brown’s College of Engineering, per the college’s web site.

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