Shooting at Brown University Leaves Two Dead, Nine Wounded (UPDATE: “Person of Interest” In Custody)
“Surveillance video released by police shows the suspect, dressed in black, calmly walking away from the scene.”
A gunman opened fire at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island last night, killing two people and wounding nine. At the time of this writing, the shooter is still at large.
The Associated Press reports:
Fear grips Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 9 as police search for shooter
Hundreds of police officers were scouring the Brown University campus along with nearby neighborhoods and poring over video in the hunt for a shooter who opened fire in a classroom, killing two people and wounding nine others.
The search stretched late into the night, well after the shooting erupted Saturday afternoon in the engineering building of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.
Surveillance video released by police shows the suspect, dressed in black, calmly walking away from the scene. His face is not visible and investigators said it wasn’t clear whether the suspect is a student.
The suspect was last seen leaving the engineering building and some witnesses told police the suspect, who could be in his 30s, may have been wearing a camouflage mask, Providence Police Deputy Chief Timothy O’Hara said.
University President Christina Paxson said she was told 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting but it was not clear if the victim was a student, she said.
It was a scary scene for many students:
Police at Brown University break into a class room, command students to show their hands, then exit them.
Terrifying ordeal all the students went through on Saturday.
Pray for all the victims and their families.
How is the gunman not caught yet?pic.twitter.com/b0kFIcN2Ap
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) December 14, 2025
This video report is from ABC News:
This did not inspire confidence:
🚨 HOLY CRAP. The Brown University President just got GRILLED.
REPORTER: “With all due respect, SIX HOURS after the shooting, you don’t know what was going on in that classroom? How does that happen?”
“I don’t know.”
REPORTER: “6 hours later. You’re the president. You don’t… pic.twitter.com/Nfloi23x4r
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 14, 2025
This is allegedly footage of the shooter:
🚨 BREAKING: Video of the alleged Brown University shooter has been RELEASED by Rhode Island authorities
It’s literally someone taking CELL PHONE VIDEO of a computer screen, and all it shows is the dude casually walking away
These people are WILDLY incompetent. COME ON! pic.twitter.com/faJu3DaBhO
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 14, 2025
The FBI was at the scene pretty quickly. The New York Post reported:
FBI on scene of Brown University mass shooting
The FBI has been deployed to assist with the investigation into the attack at Brown University, President Trump said in a post to Truth Social.
“I have been briefed on the shooting that took place at Brown University in Rhode Island. The FBI is on the scene. The suspect is in custody. God bless the victims and the families of the victims!”
Authorities later walked back claims the suspect was in custody.
A manhunt is ongoing.
This is still a developing story.
UPDATE
(by WAJ)
A “person of interest” reportedly is in custody and the shelter in place order has been lifted, per news reports:
A person of interest has been detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said at a news conference this morning.
Col. Oscar Perez, the chief of police in Providence, said the person was taken into custody early Sunday morning and that officials were not currently looking for anyone else. That person has not been officially charged at this point.
Perez confirmed that the detained suspect was in their 30s. He did not say where the suspect was arrested or whether the suspect was connected to the university.
Smiley added that the seven individuals who were injured at Brown remain in stable condition, while one of them is in critical but stable condition, and another has been discharged.
An update on the @FBI response at Brown University:@FBIBoston established a command post to intake, develop and analyze leads, and run them to ground.
We activated the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to provide critical geolocation capabilities.
As a result, early… pic.twitter.com/KONDEbrduR
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 14, 2025
Featured image via YouTube.
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Once the Police ID the victims they can then look at known associates and put a picture together. This reminds me of the Virginia shooting where the shooter was mad at fellow classmates. This type of shooting is not random. It was planned and targeted persons from the discipline taking tests. As to the President of Brown…He couldn’t immediately blame it on President Trump or Republicans so he had nothing to add at this time.
She, not he.
Are you sure?
/sarc
Well, it could have been climate change.
Polar bear maybe?
How fast the identity of the shooter is known will be determined by race, religion & citizenship status.
early innings–likely not the only video of the suspect–patience
condolences to the victims and their loved ones
What confused me was the absence of practically any information. Basic questions several hours in, after victims transported to hospitals, scene of shooting secured …and nobody would answer a question about what weapon was used? Wouldn’t even give a hedged answer that ‘X caliber casings recovered but our investigation is ongoing’.
Fox reporter on scene just made an absurd statement and their entire morning panel just let it stand. ‘Can you imagine the carnage if a semiautomatic was used?’ The context was discovery of 9mm magazines (30 round capacity). Someone with a quality gun range/training facility should offer to walk through basics of firearms knowledge, safe handling, operation and the differences, distinctions among different firearms.
Congressman Bennie Thompson said it was an unfortunate accident.
So was Congressman Thompson.
if the person in the video actually IS the suspect several things can be inferred/determined from his post-offense behavior
regardless of the video available, believe this was a targeted attack–likely the shooter was known to one or more of the survivors and with that knowledge video becomes irrelevant
As a person who grew up in little Rhody and has 2 parents who are graduates of Brown Uni, I’m very sad to see this. RI has no capacity to handle this type of situation,so thank goodness for the FBI. Brown kids think their wokeness makes them safe, but of course virtue signaling never stopped bullets. I hope for the recovery of this little commiunity and some hard soul searching from Brown on how they encourage this type of violence on their camps through their embrace of “resistance by all means necessary” anticolonial garbage. Vioelnce doesn’t feel so justified when it comes knocking on your door, does it? It’s not so cool, then? How about peace through dialogue, people? Yes you may have to listen to ideas and opnions you dislike? Oh no! You may feel uncomfortbale but you’ll be alive at the end of it, and likely alot wiser. Talking to each other and challanging one another is the only way out of this mess, not more blind allegiance to violent idiotic slogans.
Al, he’s really big.
Saw no mention yet what class or group session was the target. Find that out and might see a motive
If you didn’t suspect yet, per Powerline
Classroom was of Prof Rachel Freiburg of Economics
faculty associate of program in Judaic studies. Class was studying for exams
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