Brown University students return after mass shooting killed 2, injured 9

Brown University began a new semester Tuesday morning as the campus remains shaken by a Mass shooting Which claimed the lives of two students and sent nine injured students to the hospital.

Questions remain surrounding Brown University’s campus security after controversial security measures allowed a killer to successfully carry out a deadly shooting, and a botched immediate arrest allowed the gunman to go on to kill an MIT professor days after the attack on the Ivy League school.

Returning to school in the spring presented challenges after the shooting, said Jack DePrimo, a graduate student at Brown University.

“Back to where you were [this incident] “It happened a month ago, it feels very new and raw,” DiPrimo told Fox News Digital. “The memorials are beautiful, but it is also difficult to pass by them because I get emotional when I see them [Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov] and [Ella Cook’s] Faces. It’s strange to see your friend [face] In remembrance.”

Visitors stop at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday’s shooting, at the Van Wickle Gate at Brown University, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Claudio Manuel Nieves ValienteA 48-year-old Portuguese national is the gunman authorities say is responsible for the shooting. The Ministry of Justice launched a A copy of the registration Nieves Valiente revealed following the attack that he had been planning the shooting for some time.

“It’s done. It’s been six months, man. Not six months, six semesters. I actually planned this for a little longer,” it read. “The whole thing was pretty inept, but at least something was done.”

Nuno Loureiro, Professor At MIT and Brown University students Ella Cook and Muhammed Aziz Omurzukov were victims of multiple Nevis Valiente attacks.

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Brown University has faced intense scrutiny over how the shooter evaded local authorities, and how his identity was discovered primarily through his interaction with someone. Homeless man Who lived on campus.

An interior view of Barus & Holley Room 166 on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island On Saturday, December 13, at approximately 4 p.m., a man carrying a gun entered a review session in Barus & Holley Room 166 for ECON 0110: “Principles of Economics” and opened fire, shooting 11 students. (Kenna Lee/Brown Daily Herald)

The homeless man, known by the alias John, lived in the basement of the Brown Barrows and Holley Engineering Building. When police were unable to identify him themselves, they asked the public via social media for help locating someone who had been near the actual person in question.

It’s not clear if the man still lives on the Ivy League campus.

The Trump administration criticized Brown’s security policies.

“The surveillance and security system on Brown University’s campus may not have been up to appropriate standards, allowing the suspect to escape while the university appeared unable to provide useful information about the profile of the alleged killer,” he added. December 22 press release Read from the Ministry of Education.

“In addition, multiple students and employees at Brown reported that the university’s emergency notifications regarding an active shooter were delayed, raising significant concerns about their safety alert system. If true, these deficiencies constitute serious violations of Brown’s responsibilities under federal law.”

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Brown University President Christina Paxson released a statement the week following the shooting with details about Updated security measuresThe university said it plans to implement a stricter ID policy.

“In addition, Barus & Holley auditoriums 166 and 168, eight immediately adjacent classrooms (155 to 165), and the hallways, bathrooms and entrances immediately adjacent to that area of ​​Barus & Holley will be closed and inaccessible to everyone,” school administrative officials wrote to the Brown community in a Jan. 16 email obtained by the Brown Daily Herald.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – December 13: Brown University President Christina H. Paxson speaks during a press conference after a mass shooting puts the campus on lockdown on December 13, 2025. (Getty)

There will also be a rapid response team designed to focus on safety, an after-action review to evaluate the events leading up to the shooting, and an external security assessment of the “building perimeter, access points, cameras, technology and other infrastructure conditions,” Paxson said in a statement issued a week after the shooting.

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DiPrimo hopes the university will learn from the previous incident, noting that he has witnessed changes on campus.

“There are a lot of new emergency resources, emergency buttons on campus. I see a lot more security on the ground,” DiPrimo said. “I hope Brown can learn and move forward from this. I hope we come together as a community, and not tear each other apart.”

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts released this photo showing the man identified in the deadly shootings at both Brown University in Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. (Ministry of Justice)

As Brown students return to campus, some have decided to organize a new group called Students Demand Action at Brown. The group will meet for its first meeting of the semester on Wednesday, January 21, according to the group’s social media.

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“I want to understand the strategy moving forward to put together specific actions that could be taken in Rhode Island or New England,” DiPrimo said. “I want to see Federal changes to magazine capacity lawsBut I think we need to start gradually. “Changes that we can actually achieve in a bipartisan way.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Brown University but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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