Overview
- The U.S. Department of Education opened a program review to assess Brown’s compliance with the Clery Act and evaluate emergency notification practices after the Dec. 13 attack.
- President Christina Paxson placed Vice President for Public Safety and Police Chief Rodney Chatman on administrative leave and named former Providence police chief Hugh T. Clements as interim leader.
- Brown commissioned an external after-action review and a broader campus safety assessment, and it is accelerating upgrades including expanded camera coverage, card-access conversions, increased patrols, and more panic and duress alarms.
- A longtime custodian says he repeatedly reported a suspicious man later recognized as the shooter, as officials and reports highlight sparse surveillance in the older section of the Barus & Holley building.
- Investigators identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspect in the Brown shooting and the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro; they say he died by suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit.