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Oscar Perez

Oscar Perez

Chief, Providence Police Department

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

Force in Play

Leading an expanding investigation relying on neighborhood footage and public tips; authorities are now also assessing a possible link to the killing of an MIT professor

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