Brown University was ‘soft target’ for shooter who remains at large, criminal profiler says

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University offered a "soft target" to the "psycho killer" who opened occurrence during a play survey session, according to a transgression profiler, who cited unsecured doors, constricted cameras and the information that the gunman remained astatine ample Monday.

The unidentified gunman barged into a lecture hallway astatine the field successful Providence, Rhode Island, astir 4 p.m. Saturday, according to authorities, sidesplitting 2 students and injuring 9 more.

"College was a brushed people — doors unfastened and nary security," said John Kelly, a transgression profiler and the president of STALK Inc. "The slayer was acquainted with the area, enraged, astir apt astatine the assemblage oregon engineering program. Organized. Dressed for the juncture — and precise comfy with a semiautomatic."

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Students are escorted by instrumentality enforcement officers to a gathering astatine Brown University aft a shooting, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, successful Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Authorities person said determination were fewer information cameras successful the Barus and Holley building, wherever the shooting took place.

The FBI released surveillance video showing a idiosyncratic of involvement wearing acheronian apparel astatine an intersection to the northeast of the transgression scene. He remained astatine ample Monday afternoon, aft constabulary questioned but released idiosyncratic other successful transportation with the incident.

FBI agents canvass a vicinity adjacent Brown University successful Providence, Rhode Island, connected Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. A gunman killed 2 students and injured 9 much during a finals week survey league connected Saturday. (Greg Norman-Diamond/Fox News Digital)

"They don’t cognize if he’s 500 miles distant oregon 5 doors down the street," Kelly told Fox News Digital. "What they bash cognize is he’s a psycho slayer and wide shooter. If they don’t get him, determination is simply a batch of fearfulness for radical surviving there, and determination volition beryllium a batch of frightened kids returning to campus."

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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)

Police and national agents were seen canvassing a wider area, including the vicinity surrounding the Terrence Murray Baseball Stadium astir 5 blocks to the northeast.

Forensic investigators wearing Tyvek suits were seen combing done a dumpster extracurricular the Barus and Holley building.

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

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The 2 victims who died were identified arsenic Ella Cook, a 19-year-old from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, primitively from Uzbekistan but a naturalized U.S. national from Virginia.