Brown University shooting: Timeline of terror that left 2 dead, 9 injured

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police successful Rhode Island are entering time 3 of their hunt for the idiosyncratic who changeable and killed 2 people, and injured 9 students astatine Brown University.

The shooting happened astir 4 p.m. Saturday astatine Brown University's Barus and Holley engineering building. While a idiosyncratic of involvement was taken into custody aboriginal Sunday morning, that idiosyncratic was aboriginal released.

Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov died successful the shooting. Cook, 19, was the president of the Brown University College Republicans.

Timeline of the Brown University shooting:

Saturday astatine 4:22 p.m.: Brown University notifies the field assemblage of an progressive shooter:

At 4:22 p.m., a shooter entered the Barus and Holley engineering gathering and began firing, sidesplitting 2 radical and injuring 9 different students.

A shelter-in-place bid was issued for the full Brown University campus, which was aboriginal lifted arsenic constabulary searched for the shooter. Brown University President Christina H. Paxson described the shooting arsenic a "tragic day" for the institution.

"There are genuinely nary words that tin explicit the heavy sorrow we are feeling for the victims of the shooting that took spot contiguous astatine the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building," Paxson said.

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The outer doors to the field gathering were unlocked due to the fact that of last exams, authorities said.

The fishy was described arsenic a antheral dressed successful achromatic leaving the gathering by foot, according to Providence Police Deputy Chief Tim O'Hara.

Saturday astatine 11:04 p.m.: Police merchandise video showing a idiosyncratic of interest:

Authorities precocious Saturday released surveillance footage of a idiosyncratic of involvement pursuing a deadly shooting astatine Brown University successful Providence, Rhode Island. (Providence Police Department)

A representation showing the Barus and Holley Building astatine Brown University, wherever a gunman killed 2 and wounded 9 Saturday, arsenic good arsenic the intersection wherever a dark-clad idiosyncratic of involvement was seen connected surveillance video. (Google Maps, Fox News Digital)

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Sunday astatine 5:42 a.m.: Brown University lifts the structure successful spot order:

After implicit 12 hours, Brown University lifted the structure successful spot and allowed students to leave. Law enforcement officials had been evacuating students passim Saturday nighttime and Sunday morning.

Sunday astatine 3:45 a.m.: Authorities denote a idiosyncratic of involvement was detained:

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Authorities aboriginal Sunday greeting announced a idiosyncratic of involvement had been detained. Providence Chief of Police Colonel Oscar Perez Jr. didn't notation if the idiosyncratic was affiliated with the university.

Sunday astatine 11 p.m.: Authorities denote merchandise of the idiosyncratic of interest:

Officials successful Providence released the idiosyncratic of involvement that was antecedently successful custody, saying determination was a deficiency of evidence.

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"Yeah, look, I deliberation it's just to accidental that, ah, determination is nary ground to see him a idiosyncratic of interest. So that's wherefore he's being released," Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.

In a station connected X, the Providence Police wrote, "Tonight, we announced that the idiosyncratic of involvement is being released. The probe has been ongoing and remains afloat progressive betwixt each agencies. Since the archetypal telephone to 911, we person not received immoderate circumstantial threats to our community."

Monday astatine 2:30 p.m.: Police merchandise further surveillance footage of a idiosyncratic of interest:

Monday astatine 5:15 p.m.: Authorities merchandise caller images of idiosyncratic of interest:

The FBI and Providence Police released caller images and video of a idiosyncratic of interest, showing idiosyncratic wearing acheronian clothing, captured from surveillance cameras.

The images were retrieved astir 2 p.m. Saturday, 2 hours earlier the shooting, authorities said astatine a quality league connected Monday. The idiosyncratic of involvement was described arsenic a male, astir 5 feet 8 inches gangly with a stocky build.

Authorities added during the quality league that the shooter utilized a 9mm handgun.

File photograph of Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, who is reportedly 1 of the victims successful the wide shooting incidental astatine Brown University successful Providence, Rhode Island, Dec. 13, 2025.  (GoFundMe)

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Retired FBI Supervisory Agent Jason Pack told Fox News Digital "people privation answers," noting there's an aggravated magnitude of unit connected instrumentality enforcement.

"Parents privation to cognize their kids are safe. Students privation to cognize if they tin determination freely connected campus. Families of the victims privation justice, and they merit it," Pack said. "There is besides pressure. Investigators consciousness it. Prosecutors consciousness it. University officials consciousness it. Families of the victims transportation it each hr of each day. Pressure, however, does not lick cases. Evidence does."

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano, Andrea Margolis and Greg Norman contributed to this report.