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Brett Smiley

Brett Smiley

Mayor, Providence

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Brown University shooting turns finals week into a citywide manhunt — and a long, painful reckoning

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Managing public-safety posture and public anxiety as the manhunt stretches into a second week and the investigation potentially broadens beyond Rhode Island

Brown’s Dec. 13 shooting has moved from a campus lockdown into an extended, unnerving manhunt: the initially detained person of interest was released, and investigators have leaned on residential and vehicle-camera footage to reconstruct the masked shooter’s movements before and after gunfire killed two students — Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov — and wounded nine others.

Updated Dec 14, 2025