US EditionBrown University students feeling ‘raw’ and ‘nervous’ in return to campus after mass shooting
Brown University enhances security with more police, cameras, card access, and blue light stations after a December shooting killed two students and wounded nine.
- This week, Brown University students returned to in-person classes for the first time since the deadly shooting last month, reporting a noticeably altered campus atmosphere and nervousness.
- On December 13, Claudio Neves Valente opened fire, killing Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounding nine; he fled, killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, and died by suicide on December 18.
- Brown announced a series of security upgrades including expanded cameras, ID-card access, blue-light phones with cameras, increased public safety staffing at Barus & Holley, and placed its vice president for public safety on leave while launching an after-action review led by interim Hugh T. Clements.
- Students and neighbors say they are leaning on each other while mourning as a memorial service is planned for February 7 and Brown announced the Brown Ever True healing and recovery effort January 5.
- City and federal reviews are ongoing alongside calls for stricter prevention policies as Brown faces scrutiny over security footage, infrastructure questions, and a Department of Education probe.
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As students return to Brown University, shooter’s motive remains unclear
Students return with beefed up security as the investigation remains ongoing Students returned to Brown University on Wednesday for the first time since the deadly shooting rocked the Ivy League university, with no clear motive for the gunman’s deadly attack that left two dead. After killing students Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and wounding nine others on Dec. 13… Source
‘It doesn't feel quite normal': Brown University students from CT return to campus after mass shooting
The Brown University campus is full once again after a winter break that started on a tragic note. “It doesn’t quite feel normal, but definitely it does feel like home,” said Sam Marcus, a sophomore from Storrs. “What’s really hard was knowing that coming back to Brown would be day one after it was frozen in place,” said Michael Citarella, a junior from Trumbull. In December, police say Claudio Neves Valente opened fire in the campus’s engineeri…
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