(Providence) Searches intensified on the ground Monday to find the alleged perpetrator of the shootings at American Brown University, which left two people dead and nine injured on Saturday, after the release of a man arrested as part of the investigation.
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Previously, she had published ten seconds of images of the suspect, from behind, walking quickly in a deserted street after the shooting. A call for witnesses was also launched with the FBI.
“Clearly, we have a murderer on the loose and so we are not going to reveal our plan” to apprehend him, Rhode Island State Attorney General Peter Neronha commented late Sunday, announcing the release of a man in his twenties arrested in the morning.
“There is no reason to consider him as a potential suspect,” he assured the media. “That’s why he’s released.”
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in the university’s engineering and physics building, where exams were being held.
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Two students were killed and nine injured by shootings at Brown University on December 13, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island.
“He came in, pointed his gun and shouted something,” Joseph Oduro, a teaching assistant in the room, told CNN. “I don’t know what he said, and none of the other students know what he said, and then he just started shooting.” »
Two students were killed: Ella Cook, vice president of Brown’s Republican Association, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a native of Uzbekistan who wanted to become a neurosurgeon.
Among the nine other injured, one is in critical condition, seven are in serious but stable condition, and the last has been released from hospital, Brett Smiley, the mayor of Providence, the state capital, told American media.
No “immediate threat”
The vast majority of exams scheduled between now and the end of the semester have been canceled, Brown announced, which however remains open.
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Law enforcement officers are combing a Providence street as the manhunt continues for the suspected shooter at Brown University.
“Local police have indicated that they do not believe there is any immediate threat,” said a message on the university’s X account Monday morning.
At an event at the White House on Sunday, Donald Trump called the attack “terrible.” “Great university, truly one of the best in the world, these things can happen,” added the American president.
This killing has once again reignited the debate on the carrying of weapons, guaranteed by the Constitution and to which many Americans remain very attached.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy denounced on CNN on Sunday the measures taken by the Trump administration, “under the thumb” of this industry, which make this form of violence more likely, according to him.
With more firearms in circulation than people, the United States has the highest gun death rate of any developed country.
