Gunman Kills 2 Students and Wounds 9 at Brown University During Final-Exam Review Session
A gunman opened fire at Brown University in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, on the afternoon of December 13, 2025, walking into the Barus & Holley Building, home to the university's School of Engineering and Physics Department, and shooting students in a classroom where a final-exam review session was under way. Two students were killed and nine other students were wounded, and the gunman fled the scene and remained at large that night as police searched for him.
Brown said it alerted the campus at 4:22 p.m. to an active shooter incident near the Barus & Holley building and told students and staff to lock doors, silence phones and shelter in place. The shooting came on the second day of final examination week for the fall semester; the classroom was holding a teaching-assistant-led review session for a Principles of Economics final, and officials said the building's outer doors had been unlocked while exams were taking place.
Brown President Christina Paxson said that night that all of the dead and wounded were Brown students and that the university had been in touch with the families of the two students who were killed. "This is a deeply tragic day for Brown, our families and our local community," she said. Brown University Health said that night that seven of the nine wounded were in critical but stable condition.
Providence police said the suspect was a man dressed in black who was seen exiting the building onto Hope Street, and they released video of the suspect leaving the scene. According to Reuters, more than 400 law enforcement personnel were deployed in the search, the campus and surrounding neighborhood were locked down, and a shelter-in-place order remained in effect for hours; Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said late Saturday that officials did not believe there was any specific, ongoing threat from the suspect, but the manhunt continued. Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee pledged at a late-evening news conference that the gunman would be captured.
Source: Brown University
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Photo: 图：位于美国罗得岛州普罗维登斯市的布朗大学 Barus & Holley 大楼（资料照片，2018年摄）。Kenneth C. Zirkel 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Barus & Holley Building at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (file photo, 2018). By Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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