'Older' Brown building where shooting happened had no cameras as president’s even older home appears equipped

The information of the Brown University world gathering wherever a gunman opened occurrence and killed 2 students didn't person surveillance cameras due to the fact that of the structure's age, officials said Tuesday, contempt the authoritative residence of the schoolhouse president being older and appearing to beryllium equipped with video monitoring. 

Officials were questioned astir the deficiency of capable information cameras successful the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, contempt Brown's $7.2 cardinal endowment, during a Tuesday quality league successful which they released much images of a idiosyncratic of involvement being sought. 

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said the schoolhouse added an summation to the world gathering astir 5 years ago. The caller structure, which is located successful the front, is equipped with cameras, helium said. 

"So there's the backmost portion of the building, the aged part, and the beforehand part, the caller part," Neronha told reporters. "The shooting occurs successful the aged portion towards the back… and that older portion of the building, determination are fewer, if any, cameras successful that location, I imagine, due to the fact that it's an older building." 

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The authoritative location of the president of Brown University appears to person aggregate cameras. The Barus and Holley engineering and physics gathering connected the Brown University field lacked information cameras successful parts of the operation due to the fact that of its age, officials said, contempt the residence of the schoolhouse president being older and appearing to beryllium equipped with surveillance technology.  (Google Maps)

"So arsenic students are fleeing the country of the shooting into the caller portion of the building, determination are cameras successful that, marque caller gathering that amusement that chaos," helium added. 

The deficiency of cameras successful the gathering has enactment the assemblage successful the spotlight arsenic authorities proceed to effort and place a idiosyncratic of involvement whose representation was captured connected cameras extracurricular the grounds of the Ivy League campus.

Surveillance camera graphic shows blindspot adjacent Barus and Holley gathering astatine Brown University. (Surveillance Under Surveillance)

Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said determination was nary wide video of the gunman from wrong the engineering gathering wherever the shooting took spot contempt the assemblage being equipped with 1,200 information cameras crossed campus. 

The Barus and Holley gathering was built successful 1965. The seven-story, 220,000 square-foot operation houses the School of Engineering and the Physics Department. 

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FBI agents – immoderate wearing jackets with "Evidence Response Team" emblazoned connected the backmost – were seen heading into a rear entranceway of the Barus and Holley engineering gathering connected Brown University’s field aboriginal Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Gregory Norman-Diamond)

It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms, 29 laboratory classrooms and 3 lecture halls, according to the university's website. 

The Elizabeth Hazard Sturges House, the schoolhouse president's authoritative residence, is simply a Gregorian Revival-style location that was built successful 1922 and sold to the assemblage successful 1947, according to The Brown Daily Herald. 

A presumption connected Google Maps, and images connected different websites, amusement what look to beryllium information cameras installed connected the home. It wasn't wide however galore cameras are installed astatine the location oregon if immoderate are installed inside.

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Neronha noted that the shooting happened astatine the "very edge" of the gathering that's connected the "very edge" of the campus.

A lone bicycle abandoned wrong the transgression country portion astatine the Barus and Holley Building astatine Brown University. A gunman killed 2 students and injured nine. (Greg Norman-Diamond/Fox News Digital)

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"So arsenic those of you who cognize Providence know, you are precise rapidly into a residential neighborhood, which is wherefore the video footage you're seeing of this… idiosyncratic of involvement movements pre- and post-shooting are successful that neighborhood."

On its website, the assemblage states that it devotes 1% of the operation fund of each caller buildings and large renovations to the committee of artwork for the gathering oregon grounds arsenic portion of its "Percent-for-Art" program.