Dispatch records from Brown University shooting capture chaos of deadly campus attack

FIRST ON FOX: Newly obtained constabulary and occurrence section records item the chaotic, multi-building effect to the Brown University shooting that near 2 students dormant and aggregate wounded.

The shooting unfolded astatine the Barus and Holley gathering soon aft 4 p.m. connected Dec. 13 adjacent Brown’s Sciences Library and surrounding world buildings on Thayer, Hope and Waterman streets, according to Providence Police (PPD) and Fire Department dispatch records reviewed by Fox News Digital.

In the hr instantly aft the shooting, constabulary reported 1 imaginable fishy successful custody successful an world gathering nearby, 1 different brushwood with a imaginable fishy successful that gathering and 1 idiosyncratic being detained successful a conveyance nearby.

Police encountered a imaginable fishy successful a basement successful a gathering astatine 167 Thayer St. astatine 4:22 p.m. connected Dec. 13. They past reported 1 idiosyncratic successful custody astatine 4:38 p.m. aft encountering a imaginable fishy successful a bath successful that building. They besides reported 1 idiosyncratic detained successful a conveyance astatine 4:42 p.m.

Providence Police officers caput into the Barus and Holley gathering connected the field of Brown University connected December 16, 2025.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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These on-scene detentions are abstracted from the idiosyncratic detained the pursuing greeting astatine a edifice successful Coventry, who was aboriginal released. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the PPD for comment. 

Initial 911 calls reported a antheral changeable successful the backmost adjacent Manning Walk. Within minutes, Brown University constabulary notified metropolis authorities that aggregate radical had been shot, expanding the effect footprint to respective buildings, including Barus and Holley, 167 Thayer St., 115 Waterman St. and 184 Hope St.

Dispatch records uncover that constabulary vigor postulation confirmed an progressive shooter, with callers reporting 10 shots fired wrong hallways and classrooms wrong the Ivy League building.

Witnesses initially described a antheral fishy wearing each achromatic covering and a look covering. Police aboriginal released the archetypal suspects.

As reports flooded in, hundreds of students sheltered successful spot crossed field buildings, including Solomon Hall, wherever constabulary said that astir 150 to 300 radical were barricaded inside.

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Crime country portion blocks disconnected streets adjacent Brown University arsenic probe continues successful Providence, R.I., Saturday. (Andrea Margolis / Fox News Digital)

Providence Fire Department officials rapidly declared a wide casualty incident, according to records, with the section dispatching rescue task forces and requesting ballistic extortion for medics who were ordered to standby until constabulary could unafraid each scene.

Hospitals crossed the portion were notified, with Rhode Island Hospital designated to person the astir critically injured victims.

Despite its relation arsenic Brown University’s highest governing authorization with nonstop powerfulness implicit statesmanlike oversight and semipermanent strategy, the committee of trustees has declined to remark successful the aftermath of the murders that exposed superior lapses successful field security. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Law enforcement officials carrying weapons stitchery adjacent Brown University successful Providence, R.I., connected Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during the probe of a shooting. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)

Fire section logs amusement victims were located some wrong and extracurricular buildings, including successful hallways, stairwells and basement areas.

As officers cleared buildings level by floor, constabulary reported aggregate victims exiting the gathering and groups barricaded connected precocious floors awaiting rescue.

Officials indicated determination was nary longer an progressive threat, though searches continued for hours arsenic officers methodically cleared basements, rooftops, mechanical rooms and stairwells amid concerns of further suspects oregon victims.

A makeshift memorial is seen connected the Brown University field adjacent the country of a shooting successful Providence, Rhode Island connected Dec. 15, 2025. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

By aboriginal evening, buildings were declared secure, and buses were brought successful to relocate sheltered students to reunification points.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Providence Police Department for much accusation and requested the audio recordings of the 911 calls related to the shooting but has not yet received them. 

Police said the gunman was Claudio Neves-Valente, 48, a onetime physics prodigy from Portugal who aboriginal died by termination aft a multistate manhunt.

Federal prosecutors successful Massachusetts released this representation showing the antheral identified successful the deadly shootings of Brown University students successful Rhode Island and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. (Justice Department)

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Neves-Valente was a Portuguese nationalist and erstwhile Brown pupil who studied physics from the autumn of 2000 done the outpouring of 2001 earlier withdrawing from the programme by 2003, according to Brown University President Christina Paxson. She emphasized that Neves-Valente had nary caller affiliation with the assemblage astatine the clip of the field shooting.

The Providence Police Department has not publically released details regarding a motive.

Authorities said Neves-Valente killed 2 students and injured 9 successful the Brown attack, past traveled to Massachusetts and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology prof Nuno Loureiro 2 days later.

The Daily Mail reported that Dr. Bruno Goncalves, president of Portugal’s Institute of Plasma and Nuclear Fusion, said Neves-Valente did not support immoderate known narration with Loureiro successful the decades aft they studied unneurotic there, underscoring that the onslaught was not the effect of an ongoing rivalry oregon dispute.

Investigators cod grounds astir the Nissan Sentra which was utilized by Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, successful Salem, N.H., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

Instead, Goncalves said Neves-Valente whitethorn person fixated connected what Loureiro had travel to represent.

"The strongest mentation is that Claudio saw Nuno arsenic a awesome of the world and nonrecreational occurrence that helium himself had failed to achieve," Goncalves said.

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Fox News Digital's Stepheny Price contributed to this report.