Brown University

Force in Play

Balancing a prolonged manhunt and trauma response with pressure to resume normal operations (including admissions and exams logistics)

Brown’s Dec. 13 shooting has moved from a campus lockdown into an extended, unnerving manhunt: the initially detained person of interest was released, and investigators have leaned on residential and vehicle-camera footage to reconstruct the masked shooter’s movements before and after gunfire killed two students — Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov — and wounded nine others.

Updated Dec 14, 2025