Hunt continues for gunman who killed 2 Brown University students

14/12/2025 12:44

More than 400 law enforcement personnel were deployed on Saturday as police sought the suspect in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island that left two students dead and another nine people wounded at the Ivy League school, officials said.



The Providence university remained in lockdown several hours after a suspect with a firearm entered a building where students were taking exams. Streets around the campus were packed with emergency vehicles hours after the shooting and security was heightened around the city as law enforcement agencies continued their manhunt.



The suspect remained at large, officials said, as police worked with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to search streets and buildings around the campus to find the individual.



Providence Deputy Police Chief Timothy O’Hara said the suspect had not been identified.



Officials said they would release a video of the suspect, a male possibly in his 30s and dressed in black, who O’Hara said may have been wearing a mask. He said officials had retrieved shell casings from the scene of the shooting, but that police were not prepared to release details.



Officials said the gunman escaped after shooting students in Brown's Barus & Holley engineering building, where outer doors had been unlocked while exams were taking place.



Seven of the nine wounded were listed as critical, according to Brown University Health.