MONTREAL – Montreal Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis despatched his ideas to the neighborhood at Brown University – the place his son Ryan is a pupil and hockey participant – a day after a campus capturing left two folks useless and 9 others wounded.
“He was on campus yesterday, so he was sheltering throughout final evening’s recreation,” St. Louis stated in the beginning of his post-game information convention after a 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. “It’s a tragedy, it hit dwelling. I wish to ship my ideas and prayers to all people concerned, the scholars, the households, that neighborhood. Stuff like that shouldn’t occur.
“He’s protected, he’s again dwelling, but it surely was a troublesome time for everybody. So my ideas exit to Brown and the neighborhood.”
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The assault Saturday afternoon throughout closing exams set off hours of chaos on the Ivy League campus in Providence, R.I., as lots of of officers looked for the shooter and urged college students and workers to shelter in place.
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The lockdown stretched into the evening and was lifted early Sunday. Later within the day, officers stated an individual of curiosity who was detained after the capturing had been launched.
Authorities stated the investigation was persevering with. They had but to launch details about a possible motive.
Ryan St. Louis, 22, is in enjoying his third season for the Brown males’s hockey crew.
NBA coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors, an outspoken advocate for gun management legal guidelines, additionally addressed the tragedy Sunday earlier than a recreation in Portland.
“It’s only a reminder to me that these shootings proceed to occur and there’s something we are able to do about them,” stated Kerr, whose father Malcolm Kerr was killed in Beirut in 1984. “The loss that the entire folks concerned final evening, the loss that they’re feeling, it’s precisely the identical loss as all of the Parkland households, and each different mass capturing. Nobody requested me about it right this moment. I didn’t count on anyone to ask me.
“It’s human nature simply to assume, ‘This is so horrible. Let’s simply not even give it some thought.’ But, we’ve got to consider it.”
— With information from The Associated Press.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Dec. 14, 2025.
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