{"id":70352,"date":"2025-12-14T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:14:10","slug":"brown-university-instructor-describes-horror-inside-classroom-after-gunman-burst-in-and-started-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70352\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University instructor describes horror inside classroom after gunman burst in and started shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brown University instructor who was leading a final exam review has described the moment of horror that a <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\">masked gunman burst into his lecture hall <\/a>and started shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Oduro, a 21-year-old teaching assistant, told the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/14\/us\/brown-shooting-classroom-victims.html?smid=url-share\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0that the gunman shouted \u201csomething\u201d before opening fire, but he could not tell what.<\/p>\n<p>Oduro was wrapping up a review session for Principles of Economics when they heard the shooter outside in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Oduro, 21, described the horror inside a classroom when a masked gunman entered a lecture hall and opened fire. Linkedin\/Joseph Oduro<\/p>\n<p>Students were at the review session for Principles of Economics with Oduro when they heard the shooter outside in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden, we heard gunshots and people screaming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Within moments, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/14\/us-news\/brown-university-shooting-person-of-interest-arrested-after-2-killed-9-wounded\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a masked man with a rifle appeared in the doorway and opened fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oduro said he and police are still trying to figure out what the attacker said <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/13\/us-news\/brown-university-shooting-video-shows-suspected-gunman-leaving-campus-after-killing-at-least-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what the students and I \u2014 and the detectives \u2014 have been trying to piece together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team work the scene. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest on the mass shooting at Brown University<\/p>\n<p>Oduro quickly hid behind a desk with around 20 others students. One of them was wounded in the leg.<\/p>\n<p>The layout of the lecture hall meant the students in the middle section could not quickly escape the bullets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students in the middle were impacted the most,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of them were lying there and they were not moving. I have no idea how many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police vehicles stand near the site of the mass shooting. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Authorities announced they arrested a person of interest in the shooting early Sunday morning. Providence Police Department\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Shell casings are highlighted with evidence markers inside one of the buildings at Brown University. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Oduro is a senior at Brown studying applied mathematics, economics, and computer science. He told the Times that Principles of Economics is a prerequisite for many upper-year courses at Brown and estimates 80 percent of the students enrolled are freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>The review session was one of five Oduro offered to students before Tuesday\u2019s final exam. Right before the shooting began, Oduro remembers saying goodbye to his students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was telling my students that I am so grateful for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brown University instructor who was leading a final exam review has described the moment of horror that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70353,"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-70352","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\/70352","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=70352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}