Eva Erickson is a doctoral candidate and engineering and thermal science student at Brown.
An Eagan native who was a runner-up on “Survivor” says she left the building mere moments before a shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus.
Eva Erickson, an engineering and thermal science student, said she left her lab in the same building minutes before shots rang out.
“I am so so extremely lucky that I was very unproductive at work today,” she posted in an Instagram story while she was locked down in a gym while authorities looked for the shooter.
Around 4 p.m. Erickson said she thought, “Man, I’m just not getting anything done … and randomly decided I would go to the gym. I never go to the gym in the afternoon. … I was leaving the building within five minutes of the shooter coming in.”
In another post on her Instagram account, Erickson told people she was safe.
“I am safe!!” Erickson wrote. “Yes, my office at Brown is in the building of the shooting but I was very lucky I left my lab 15 minutes prior to the active shooter alert to go to the gym.
