Brown Pupil / ‘Survivor’ Star
Lightning Would not Strike Twice …
Staying in City Amid Seek for Shooter
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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 frightened about one other capturing there.
Take a look at our interview — the Ph.D. candidate says she feels “safe” whereas hunkered down at her off-campus residence in Windfall, Rhode Island as a result of she assumes the assailant is “long gone,” reasoning … “Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place.” However, she notes the thought 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 “continue to receive zero credible threats to our community, Brown or the broader community,” which he is definitely caught some flack for because the suspect stays on the lam.
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Whereas Eva feels protected general, she tells TMZ she and her friends have simply as a lot info as most people, and the lack of know-how 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 alter. Eva says it is “insane” college students are so weak to gun violence in America, noting … “I just wanted to go to school and learn and have this community and be safe. And now that’s 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 laws.
Slightly than instantly flee the world after the horrific capturing, Eva stayed again and helped her mates and hockey teammates — she’s captain of the lads’s membership hockey group — transfer out of their dorms, and he or she plans on being again dwelling along with her of us in Minnesota for Christmas.
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She was additionally in a position to 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 along with her within the college’s indoor monitor and basketball facility. She says she was thrilled to “bring a smile to somebody’s face as we’re all in this really scary situation.”
And in the event you’re questioning if putting 2nd on the hit CBS collection mentally ready her for almost 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 resolution to depart her analysis workplace to go to the health club — which she by no means does within the afternoon — and consequently missed the gunman by 5 minutes.
