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

[JennieM]

The university has 1200 cameras but where the shooting took place is in a building at the edge of the campus with no cameras. There is no footage of this individual that would help identify him other than what they have released.

 

[JennieM]

We are doing everything we can to find additional footage from the neighborhood that will supplement what we already have.

 

[LAhiker]

I'm especially interested in the timing of videos/photos in which the guy is carrying the cross-body bag and those in which he was not. I think someone said that they were figuring out whether he could've been carrying the bag under his jacket.

In the video with him wearing the cross-body bag, his belly appears to completely fill his jacket. So I'm not sure how he could get the bag under it. In the photos without the bag, it also doesn't look to me like he slung it over his back under the jacket. So my guess is that he stashed the bag somewhere, depending on the timing.

(In some videos he looks fatter than in others, but that might come from the angle. I think his belly looks big in the photo with the cross-body bag, but doubt that he was carrying anything else under his jacket.)

If the bag contained his gun, another question is of course what he did with it. More obvious questions -- did he take it with him? Where did he go?

Someone in the presser just said something about photos before and after the shooting. Have they released any photos from after the shooting, or did the LE person misspeak?

JMO

ETA: Of course, it's possible that at times he was carrying the bag under his jacket. It just didn't look like that to me.

 

[99cats]

I apologize if someone has already pointed this out, but while I was searching whether review sessions were publicly available, I did find a listing of final exams for the semester. There were final exams scheduled on a Saturday, and there was one scheduled in the Barus & Holley building in Room 160. The shooting took place in Room 166.

Every final I ever attended generally ended early - could the shooter have been looking for the ENGN 1000 - Projects in Engineering Design I class, found the room empty, but saw room 166 occupied?

 

[Dotta]

The university has 1200 cameras but where the shooting took place is in a building at the edge of the campus with no cameras. There is no footage of this individual that would help identify him other than what they have released.

So...
Maybe the attacker chose the building for exactly this reason?



The system is as strong as its weakest link.

JMO

 

[JennieM]

Sirens didn’t go off, there were no cameras in the old building. Do you think Brown’s security was enough?

Conflicting answer, started saying yes but then no if there is an active shooter?

 

[wibbleflea]

New video released by Providence police on Tuesday provides a zoomed-in look on the person of interest in the Brown shooting.

“ENHANCED VIDEO: We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident,” Providence police posted on X on Tuesday.

All videos included in the latest release were taken before the shooting at around 2 p.m., according to timestamps.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/brown-university-shooting-12-16-25?t=1765921563317

Much better in providing detail but it feels like some clips are sped up and others slowed down. Could be an issue caused by video cameras recording different frame rates and all segments then being played back at a single frame rate.

If I were local to the area and trying assess the POI’s gait and movement to see if I could recognise him, this would throw me off. Footage of someone walking like Charlie Chaplin isn’t as helpful as it could be. The video released and pulled by the FBI Boston account on X was better for assessing the person’s mannerisms and walk. Hopefully still available at the link I posted earlier.

 

[JennieM]

They want boots on the ground, help from outside, they will continue patrolling the campus for as long as they think it is necessary.

 

[JennieM]

They are encouraging anyone who has any information to contact the FBI tip line. Providence Police and FBI are dealing with those phone calls.

 

[JennieM]

Once they identify who this person is, they will be able to locate him. So they need to identify the person.

 

[JennieM]

Where did they lose sight of the shooter?

In the residential block.

 

[keek]

Once they identify who this person is, they will be able to locate him. So they need to identify the person.

It worries me that he is not from the area at all. IMO

 

[Dotta]

Once they identify who this person is, they will be able to locate him. So they need to identify the person.

Hmmm...
Anybody who knows this person
would have already tipped LE, no?

But, maybe money reward will help.

JMO

 

[whitelilac]

Ask about the casings, ask if there's any headway in recovering DNA , if any, particularly with the new more accurate method the name of which I forget.

 

[JennieM]

They have no information about motive or linking the shooter with the professor. Nothing indicates a motive. Dangerous route to go down (motive about ethnicity or politically motivated etc.)

 

[JennieM]

Is there a second individual?

Presser has finished, question unanswered.

 

[arielilane]

@NewsNation


Authorities released new video and pictures of a man believed to be a suspect in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University, which killed two students and injured nine others. The new video shows the potential suspect two hours before the first 911 call.https://tinyurl.com/22vmuwbp

https://twitter.com/x/status/2000916736674001219

 

[ivylambs]

I apologize if someone has already pointed this out, but while I was searching whether review sessions were publicly available, I did find a listing of final exams for the semester. There were final exams scheduled on a Saturday, and there was one scheduled in the Barus & Holley building in Room 160. The shooting took place in Room 166.

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Every final I ever attended generally ended early - could the shooter have been looking for the ENGN 1000 - Projects in Engineering Design I class, found the room empty, but saw room 166 occupied?

According to the Brown bulletin that's a group project-based class for engineering upperclassmen and graduate students. I can't tell if it's supposed to be a capstone project. My first question was -- could he have been somehow aggrieved with his groupmates? But I think he would have been identified by now if that was the case.

 

[LAborn]

Press conference starting now

Thanks for posting. These new videos and close-ups from behind are enough for someone who knows him to ID him. jmo

 

[LAhiker]

According to the Brown bulletin that's a group project-based class for engineering upperclassmen and graduate students. I can't tell if it's supposed to be a capstone project. My first question was -- could he have been somehow aggrieved with his groupmates? But I think he would have been identified by now if that was the case.

Based on the estimated age of the person of interest, I initially wondered if he could be a grad student who had been dropped from a program associated with the professor leading the review session or with the engineering building. But I agree that in that case, he probably would have been identified by now.

JMO