New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- Benjamin Erickson, 24, was reportedly identified as a "person of interest" in the mass shooting that rocked Brown University in the US on Saturday.

FBI Director Kash Patel said earlier Sunday in a post on X that the person of interest had been detained in a hotel room in the Rhode Island town of Coventry, a 30-minute drive from the Brown campus.

"An FBI team specialising in cellular data analysis used geolocation information to track the suspect," Patel said.

Several news media outlets, including the Washington Post and NBC News, cited unnamed sources identifying the man as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson, who previously resided in Wisconsin.

Detectives anticipated that the person in custody would be formally charg...