College basketball coach furious after shooting at Brown University: 'It's the guns'

USC Trojans women’s hoops caput manager Lindsay Gottlieb blamed guns for the shooting that occurred astatine Brown University successful Rhode Island implicit the weekend.

The gunman, who wasn’t instantly identified, killed 2 and wounded 9 others successful their rampage successful Providence. A idiosyncratic of involvement was taken into custody, but aboriginal released.

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USC Trojans caput manager Lindsay Gottlieb during the 4th fourth of an NCAA Tournament crippled against the UNC Greensboro Spartans astatine Galen Center successful March 22, 2025.  (Robert Hanashiro/Imagn Images)

Gottlieb, who went to Brown, started her postgame property league talking astir the shooting astatine the Ivy League school. The Trojans mislaid to the UConn Huskies, 79-51.

"It doesn’t request to beryllium this way," she said. "Sending thoughts and prayers to my teammates who person kids there. To the parents that person to interest astir their children, I’m conscionable going to extremity it with that, but conscionable to accidental we’re the lone state that lives this way.

"The assemblage shot rhythm has been successful the quality a cardinal times and are we going to study astir this? It’s the guns. We’re the lone state that lives this way. Parents should not beryllium disquieted astir their kid — I person a teammate who has a girl who is successful the basement of a room due to the fact that they don’t cognize what’s going connected there. And she’s flying determination tomorrow. Just wanted to commencement with that due to the fact that I would beryllium remiss if I didn’t notation that."

A bouquet of flowers rests connected snow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, connected the field of Brown University not acold from wherever a shooting took place, successful Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Officials announced aboriginal Sunday nighttime that the idiosyncratic of involvement was released from custody and the probe remained ongoing.

"Tonight, we announced that the idiosyncratic of involvement is being released," Providence constabulary said. "The probe has been ongoing and remains afloat progressive betwixt each agencies. Since the archetypal telephone to 911, we person not received immoderate circumstantial threats to our community."

USC Trojans caput manager Lindsay Gottlieb speaks with a referee during the 2nd fractional of the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament last crippled against the UCLA Bruins connected Sunday, March 9, 2025, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Christine Tannous/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Gottlieb has coached astatine USC since the 2021-22 season. She is 100-39 successful that span. She antecedently coached astatine UC Santa Barbara and Cal.

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