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.
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.
The stakes widened again midweek as authorities began probing whether the Brown attack connects to the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts. With the suspect still not publicly identified and the search stretching beyond Providence, Brown is simultaneously trying to restore routines (including releasing delayed early-decision admissions) while facing a harder question: what “open campus” can mean when violence is mobile, masked, and potentially multi-site.
