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Brown Cancels Dec. 21 Basketball Games After Fatal Campus Shooting

Police continue to seek a masked person of interest linked to the attack that killed two students.

Overview

  • Brown called off the men’s trip to USC and the women’s home game vs. Monmouth, with USC saying it will schedule a different opponent for Sunday.
  • USC and Monmouth issued statements of support for Brown, and the cancellations were described as mutual decisions with their athletics departments.
  • Brown previously suspended all remaining in‑person fall‑semester exams, according to Provost Francis J. Doyle III.
  • Investigators released surveillance images of a person of interest and asked the public for tips, and an individual detained over the weekend was released for lack of evidence.
  • The two students killed were identified as Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and a Rhode Island Hospital spokesperson said five victims were in critical but stable condition, one in critical condition, one stable, and two had been discharged.