Brown University’s police chief has been placed on leave, more than a week after a deadly mass shooting that killed two and injured nine others.<\/p>\n
The decision was announced by the Ivy League school’s president Christina Paxson on Monday, who said it is part of a “standard” review into campus safety in light of the attack.<\/p>\n
Rodney Chatman, the police chief at the Rhode Island university, is on leave “effective immediately”, Ms Paxson said.<\/p>\n
Police have been criticised for their response to the shooting and their failure to quickly identify and apprehend a suspect. Earlier on Monday, the US Department of Education said it is also reviewing safety at the college in light of the shooting.<\/p>\n
Six days after the attack, authorities identified the suspect in the 13 December shooting as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national.<\/p>\n
Valente, who had previously studied at Brown University, was found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire on Friday. <\/p>\n
Officials said they also believe Valente killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor two days after the shooting at Brown University. A motive in both shootings has not been released. <\/p>\n
In her statement on Monday, Ms Paxson praised the “bravery, dedication and commitment” of the campus officers who responded on the day of the attack.<\/p>\n
But she acknowledged “anxiety, fear and stress” on campus in the aftermath of the shooting, and said the university is taking immediate steps to address those concerns.<\/p>\n
Among those steps will be a review of the response to the shooting, and a review of Brown University’s current safety policies, both of which will be conducted by the school’s highest governing body, she said. <\/p>\n
Her statement comes after the US Department of Education said on Monday that it will be reviewing Brown’s response to the shooting. <\/p>\n
President Donald Trump had criticised the university for not having enough security cameras on campus after the shooting. Ms Paxson has said that the campus has 1,200 security cameras.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the suspect entered a building used for Brown’s engineering and physics programmes and fired at least 44 rounds from his pistol at students. <\/p>\n
The two people killed in the attack were identified as Ella Cook, 19, a second-year student from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, an Uzbek-American first-year student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brown University’s police chief has been placed on leave, more than a week after a deadly mass shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-363387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}