Brown Students Sue School for Allegedly Ignoring Warnings Before Campus Shooting
“victims claim Brown University did not respond to reports of suspicious activity or implement measures to enhance campus safety before the attack”
The Brown University shootings already seem like a distant memory, even though it wasn’t that long ago. We’ll see who wins this legal battle.
WPRI News reports:
3 Brown campus shooting victims sue university, alleging failure to act on warnings
Three students injured in last year’s deadly shooting at Brown University are suing the school, alleging it failed to provide adequate security and prevent a foreseeable act of violence.
According to the complaints obtained by 12 News, the victims claim Brown University did not respond to reports of suspicious activity or implement measures to enhance campus safety before the attack.
On Dec. 13, students were attending an economics review session when a gunman opened fire inside Tanner Auditorium in the Barus and Holley academic building. Two students, MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, were killed, and nine others were injured.
The suspect, identified as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, later died by suicide at a Salem, New Hampshire storage facility, where police found his body following a six-day manhunt.
The lawsuits, filed in Providence County Superior Court, note that Neves Valente, a former Brown student, was repeatedly present in the immediate vicinity of the university in the days and weeks leading up to the shooting.
Custodian Derek Lisi recalled seeing Neves Valente canvassing the Barus and Holley building and surrounding areas on numerous occasions during that time and had previously reported him as suspicious to campus security. In an interview with 12 News, Lisi said he had warned about specific behaviors and encounters with the suspect, but was unsure if any action was taken afterward.
Despite these reports, the students claim, Brown took “no known reasonable or meaningful steps” to investigate or identify the alleged threat, nor did it increase surveillance. The lawsuits add that Barus and Holley was only equipped with two exterior cameras, and interior camera coverage “did not include Tanner Auditorium or the hallways immediately surrounding it.”
The suit also points to another witness, a man publicly identified only as “John,” who was credited with “blowing the case wide open.” “John” encountered the suspect hours before the shooting and later assisted police in the investigation, providing police with information concerning his appearance and the car he was driving.
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We want the police defunded!
We also want them to jump immediately at vague suspicious activity.
Though if they stop us to have a conversation, they’re Nazi pigs.
And that’s what we want for Christmas, Santa.
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