RI - Mass Shooting at Brown University - Providence 13 Dec 2025

[indicolite22]

So the weapon was a gun and not a shotgun? BBM:

"I immediately, when I saw him, I saw a gun," Oduro told ABC News correspondent Whit Johnson in an interview on Sunday. "The gun was so big and long that I genuinely thought, like, okay, this is the end of the road for me."

'We made eye contact': Brown University student describes alleged gunman bursting into lecture hall

Brown University student Joseph Oduro said he was in a lecture hall when a gunman wielding a rifle burst through the door and locked eyes with him.

abcnews.go.com

Also: Oduro said the gunman was dressed in dark clothing from head to toe and appeared to be wearing something that was bulging from his chest, saying it could have been ammunition or a bulletproof vest. He said the gunman was completely covered except for his eyes and part of a hand.

Could he still have the vest on when he escaped?

 

[indicolite22]

“There just weren’t a lot of cameras in that Brown building,” Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a separate Providence Journal report.

“He went in basically without anyone noticing anything,” Thomas Verdi, a former Providence chief of police who now oversees the city’s revenue department, said in a Providence Journal report. “He … knew the building. He knew the area. And I would not be surprised if he was a student, former student, worker.”

Few cameras, open doors at Brown University building where shooting occurred

Students have to swipe badges to access the targeted lecture room, but the large number of students during exam week could have overwhelmed security protocols, reports suggest.

www.facilitiesdive.com

 

[RobertCatesby]

Brown has no basis for saying there is no immediate threat/cause for concern. There are saying that to give the illusion that they somehow have everything under control despite no actual attacker being in custody when they clearly don't. U Idaho did the exact same thing in 2022 for the same reason and luckily they guessed right about no further threat, hopefully the same situation here (and ideally without the 6 week gap before an arrest like with Idaho).

 

[Arkay]

That's actually less helpful than the first video. Hopefully what they have coming is better quality.

I agree that it’s impossible to distinguish this individual’s identity from this clip, but as you say, hopefully better is to come.

I know we are all thinking that at the least, this clip shows us a location, and so police will at least canvas that area seeking surveillance cameras.

Hopefully something somewhere has caught his facial features, or getting into a car, or anything at all that provides a dab of information. Or even a goldmine of info, but I think this perp is too cautious for that.

JMO

 

[Dotta]

New video of a POI...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2000649669966201052

Hmmm...
Just a black shadow moving...

 

[MassGuy]

So the weapon was a gun and not a shotgun? BBM:

"I immediately, when I saw him, I saw a gun," Oduro told ABC News correspondent Whit Johnson in an interview on Sunday. "The gun was so big and long that I genuinely thought, like, okay, this is the end of the road for me."

'We made eye contact': Brown University student describes alleged gunman bursting into lecture hall

Brown University student Joseph Oduro said he was in a lecture hall when a gunman wielding a rifle burst through the door and locked eyes with him.

abcnews.go.com

Also: Oduro said the gunman was dressed in dark clothing from head to toe and appeared to be wearing something that was bulging from his chest, saying it could have been ammunition or a bulletproof vest. He said the gunman was completely covered except for his eyes and part of a hand.

Could he still have the vest on when he escaped?

I think he walked out exactly as he was dressed when he was committing the shootings. He was on camera like a minute or two after the murders, which wouldn't have been enough time to change.

 

[Dotta]

I don't think I notice a strange gait in this video. Do any of you?

Because he is shown from the side.
This gait is clear when looking either from behind or front.

 

[deoneta]

SBM. According to the TA witness (quoted in NYT yesterday) the shooter was "a masked man".

That's what confuses me. How does the shooter go from blending in to looking like an assassin? The TA also seemed certain that the shooter had a rifle. That could explain the stiff leg I suppose, a broken down rifle, but how did he get a rifle in and assembled if the TA is correct?

 

[MassGuy]

Presser in about 20 minutes:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2000676365671055471

 

[layer]

I'm reminded of the Missy Bevers videos - the perp walking around inside the church with the hammer/murder weapon. Those were pretty clear compared to this junk. And it remains unsolved a decade later.

 

[Lusitana]

Meh, two videos who don't really help. They even arrested the wrong guy, apparently... We will see if this new video is any better.

 

[seenabp]

That's what confuses me. How does the shooter go from blending in to looking like an assassin? The TA also seemed certain that the shooter had a rifle. That could explain the stiff leg I suppose, a broken down rifle, but how did he get a rifle in and assembled if the TA is correct?

DBM

 

[layer]

A firearm doesn't have to be a long gun (rifle or shotgun) to be characterized as big and long, IMHO

Source

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2000656448401948853

 

[Onlyguessing23]

I’m assuming the perpetrator is identified as male based on voice only? (Upon coming into the classroom yelling.)

 

[JennieM]

52 min ago

FBI conducting search of yards near Brown University​

From CNN's Joel Williams and Michael Yoshida


Video at link.


FBI agents were seen Monday searching areas including near the intersection of Cooke Street and Waterman Street, in Providence, Rhode Island.

In the video, agents in FBI uniforms are seen clearing snow from a cement wall in front of a house located near the intersection of Cooke Street and Waterman Street. The agents were using were using flashlights to look in between the large rocks of some of the retaining walls.

Later, the agents walk between the bushes and inspect the ground in front of the house.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/brown-university-shooting-manhunt-12-15-25

 

[Onlyguessing23]

The gait in the second video appears much more fluid to me, than that in the first video. Possibly removed equipment in the meantime?

 

[Warwick1991]

Interesting as this is though someone for some reason was purposely videoing this walker. IMO

I think it is a camera mounted near the roofline of the building at 144 Waterman, probably to monitor the parking lot that is visible.

 

[Lore Listener]

Hmmm...
Just a black shadow moving...

"I see a puppy in his coat!"

Just kidding. But seriously, could these videos be any blurrier?

 

[Marie A]

He’s walking confidently in both clips and does look 30s or 40s plus (decidedly not 20s) based on stride - strictly IMHO
Guessing the “in his 30s” description came from one or more eyewitnesses to this atrocity

Wearing some sort of tactical zipping fleece jacket
9mm firearm (per presser)- not too hard to hide that