{"id":70118,"date":"2025-12-14T02:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70118\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:13:12","slug":"terrified-brown-university-students-describe-moment-gunman-rampaged-through-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70118\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrified Brown University students describe moment gunman rampaged through university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terrified Brown University students described hearing \u201cloud bangs,\u201d sprinting through hallways and seeing kids dive under desks as a crazed gunman stormed the campus on Saturday afternoon \u2014 killing at least two people and wounding eight others.<\/p>\n<p>Student Martyna Kaps told the Brown Daily Herald that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/13\/us-news\/active-shooter-at-brown-university-ivy-league-campus-on-lockdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she heard \u201cloud bangs\u201d<\/a> as she was leaving a review session at the Barus &amp; Holley Engineering school building for a \u201cPrinciples of Economics\u201d course.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37923490\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/law-enforcement-officials-assist-one-117289616.jpg\" alt=\"Law enforcement officials assist one another while putting on gear in a neighborhood near Brown University, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Providence, R.I. during the investigation of a shooting. \" class=\"wp-image-37923490\"  \/>Kaps said that she heard \u201cloud bangs\u201d as she was leaving a review session at the Barus &amp; Holley Engineering school building. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were still people in the classroom,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I heard, many of them dove behind the teacher\u2019s desk and hid there to avoid the bullets,\u201d Kaps added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/13\/us-news\/live-updates-mass-shooting-at-brown-university\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on the mass shooting at Brown University<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another student on the Rhode Island Ivy League campus, Refath Bari GS, was walking down the stairs in the Engineering Research Center when chaos erupted as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/13\/us-news\/live-updates-mass-shooting-at-brown-university\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">students heard blaring gunshots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was confusion and then people started running,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran as fast as I could to the other side of the street towards Thayer Street, and then I found a student and went into her apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.30612245;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37923493\" width=\"771\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/police-arrive-scene-providence-r-117288931.jpg\" alt=\"Police arrive at the scene in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, during the investigation of a shooting.\" class=\"wp-image-37923493\"  \/>The suspected shooter remains at large as of Saturday evening. AP<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who police described as a man dressed in black, fled on foot and remains at large as of Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terrified Brown University students described hearing \u201cloud bangs,\u201d sprinting through hallways and seeing kids dive under desks as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36116,36118,7459,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-70118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brown-university","9":"tag-brown-university-shooting-2025","10":"tag-mass-shootings","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}