Brown University implements campus-wide security overhaul after mass shooting leaves 2 dead, 9 wounded

Following the Dec. 13 wide shooting astatine Brown University, schoolhouse officials Tuesday announced caller information measures, including installing information cameras wrong the Barus and Holley engineering and physics gathering wherever 11 students were shot, including 2 fatally.

In a missive to the community, Brown University Department of Public Safety interim vice president Hugh T. Clements Jr. said contiguous actions volition see accrued nationalist information staffing crossed campus, and continued usage of paper access, keys oregon ID checks for gathering entry.

He added that earlier the Spring 2026 semester, assemblage constabulary volition modulation remaining buildings utilizing cardinal entree to paper access, grow blue-light phones with cameras, instal information cameras successful cardinal locations, including the Barus and Holley building, and grow panic buttons successful captious areas.

New trauma-informed information and active-shooter preparedness grooming volition besides beryllium offered successful the outpouring semester.

A makeshift memorial is seen connected the Brown University field adjacent the country of a shooting successful Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Clements, who antecedently served arsenic main of the Providence Police Department, was precocious named Brown's interim nationalist information vice president aft erstwhile main Rodney Chatman was placed connected permission pursuing a study from The Boston Globe, which alleged a schoolhouse custodian, Derek Lisi, saw the shooter astatine Barus and Holley weeks earlier the incidental and alerted a information guard.

Authorities accidental 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a erstwhile Brown student, opened occurrence wrong the elite university's engineering and physics building, sidesplitting students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, before traveling to Boston to termination MIT prof Nuno Loureiro. Days later, authorities recovered Neves-Valente dormant by termination successful a retention portion successful Salem, New Hampshire. 

Interior presumption of Barus and Holley Room 166 connected the field of Brown University successful Providence, R.I. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Daily Herald)

The Department of Education opened an probe into Brown University for imaginable violations of the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), which requires colleges to conscionable field information and information requirements to person national pupil aid. 

The section volition besides behaviour an outer after-action reappraisal of the incidental and exigency response, and a comprehensive, externally-led field information and information appraisal incorporating assemblage input, according to Clements.

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"The Brown assemblage has experienced an unspeakable tragedy," Clements wrote successful the letter. "I privation to accidental intelligibly and unequivocally: What happened connected Dec. 13 should ne'er hap again—at Brown oregon anywhere—and we indispensable face that imperative for our assemblage with steadfast purpose."

Visitors intermission astatine a makeshift memorial astatine the Van Wickle Gate astatine Brown University for the victims of a wide shooting. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

"As I measurement into this role, I bash truthful afloat alert that determination are captious questions astir the spot of our information and information systems," helium added. "Acknowledging those questions is not astir assigning blame—it is astir responsibility, learning and improvement. … Safety requires much than disposable security. It is built done preparation, transparency, spot and partnership."

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The section said it volition enactment connected improving coordination with section agencies, enhancing exigency communications and training, and reinforcing consciousness of information and exigency resources.

Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes contributed to this report.