Overview
- Brown University President Christina Paxson put Vice President for Public Safety and Police Chief Rodney Chatman on immediate leave and named former Providence police chief Hugh T. Clements as interim leader.
- The U.S. Department of Education opened a program review requiring Brown to turn over security reports, crime records, and emergency notification data to assess compliance with the Clery Act.
- Brown announced near-term measures including added cameras at Barus & Holley, expanded panic and duress systems, increased patrols and card access, plus two external safety assessments.
- Custodian Derek Lisi said he repeatedly saw a man later identified as the suspect ‘casing’ the building and reported him to a third‑party security worker; the contractor said its staff are unarmed and advise calling campus police.
- Investigators have identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the gunman in the Dec. 13 attack that killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and in the slaying of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro; he was found dead by apparent suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit.