A gunman killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday, December 13, 2025, plunging the eastern United States campus into lockdown.
The streets around the university in the state of Rhode Island were filled with emergency vehicles hours after the gunfire at a building where exams were taking place.
The shooting is the latest in a long line of school attacks in the United States, where attempts to restrict access to firearms face political deadlock.
Witness Katie Sun told the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper she was studying in a nearby building when she heard gunfire.
She said she ran to her dorm and left all her belongings behind.
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“It was honestly quite terrifying. The shots seemed like they were coming from where the classrooms are,” she said.
Six hours after the shooting, the gunman was still at large, and some 400 police ranging from FBI agents to campus cops swarmed the quaint New England campus.
“I can confirm that there are two individuals who have died this afternoon, and there are another eight in critical status, though stable,” Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Brett Smiley told a news conference.
Brown University President Christina Paxson, while speaking at a late night briefing, disclosed that ten of the 11 victims were students.
In his reaction, President Donald Trump said: “What a terrible thing it is.
“All we can do right now is pray for the victims.”
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