‘Survivor’ Star Who Attends Brown U. Feels Safe Despite Campus Shooter’s Escape

“Survivor” Season 48 contestant Eva Erickson narrowly dodged the gunman who opened fireplace at Brown University Saturday afternoon, however she says she’s not overly anxious about one other taking pictures there.

Check out our interview — the Ph.D. candidate says she feels “safe” whereas hunkered down at her off-campus residence in Providence, Rhode Island as a result of she assumes the assailant is “long gone,” reasoning … “Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place.” On the opposite hand, 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 data within the ongoing case. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley informed ABC News Monday authorities “continue to receive zero credible threats to our community, Brown or the broader community,” which he is actually caught some flack for because the suspect stays on the lam.

While Eva feels protected general, she tells TMZ she and her friends have simply as a lot data as most of the people, and the lack of information in regards to 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 positive of — one thing wants to alter. Eva says it is “insane” college students are so susceptible 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.” While she says she does not have the solutions, she seems at lawmakers who’re higher outfitted to advocate for gun security rules.

Rather than instantly flee the world after the horrific taking pictures, Eva stayed again and helped her pals and hockey teammates — she’s captain of the boys’s membership hockey workforce — transfer out of their dorms, and she or he plans on being again dwelling along with her of us in Minnesota for Christmas.

She was additionally capable of unfold some cheer whereas bullets terrorized college students on one other a part of campus, telling TMZ she met some “Survivor” followers who had 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 when you’re questioning if putting 2nd on the hit CBS collection mentally ready her for practically 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.