Overview
- A Brown freshman said he hid with about 25 students in a library basement for roughly seven hours before police escorted them out.
- Investigators named former Brown student Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, as the attacker and later found him dead in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit.
- The Dec. 13 shooting inside Brown’s Barus & Holley building killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine others.
- Students warned one another on the Sidechat app and barricaded doors as they initiated a library lockdown before official alerts arrived.
- Brown says it has increased security and launched a campuswide review, as alumni and local businesses supported students and witnesses urged stricter gun laws.