{"id":458820,"date":"2026-02-09T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:50:50","slug":"city-officials-share-new-video-from-day-of-brown-university-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458820\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials share new video from day of Brown University shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 A new video from the day of the Brown University shooting<\/a> that killed two students and injured nine others was released Monday, with city officials saying they had withheld other footage and redacted the most graphic, violent images to avoid harming victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a difficult process to both maintain our commitment to transparency, to respond to requests from the media and the public\u2019s right to know exactly what happened, but also balancing what we know are potential, really serious downside effects of releasing some of this information,\u201d Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

News outlets across the U.S. and other countries had been requesting body camera footage, audio clips and other public records shortly after the shooting took place in mid-December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Material shows police response to the shooting<\/p>\n

The newly released material includes audio of a campus police officer calling city police at 4:07 p.m. \u201cThis is Brown police. We have confirmed gunshots at 184 Hope Street,\u201d the officer said. \u201cWe do have a victim but we do not know where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four minutes later, campus police called back with an update: \u201cWe have a suspect description, wearing all black and a ski mask, unknown travel direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Separately, the city released roughly 20 minutes of body camera footage of the officer in charge of the initial response to the shooting. The heavily redacted footage shows a chaotic and confusing scene of officers not knowing if the shooter was still in the building and attempts to quickly find a safe spot to send the students evacuated from the building. Scattered backpacks, gloves and other items can be seen as officers scour the building looking for a possible shooter and victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s get these rescues in, where are we staging rescue?\u201d the officer, who was not identified, says in the video.<\/p>\n

He later cautions other officers, \u201cShooter might still be in the building, so use caution alright.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long portions of the video are either blacked out or with the audio redacted. The video is often blocked by the officer\u2019s arms in front of the camera. Officials defended their decision, made in consultation with city lawyers, to release only one video, saying it offered the most \u201ccomprehensive\u201d view. Smiley argued that releasing more videos would not answer the harder question of why the shooter chose to attack the university.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did this person do this? None of those videos are going to answer that question. None of them,\u201d Smiley said.<\/p>\n

Other audio captures officers describing a possible sighting of the shooter on the second floor of another building and a report of a suspect being taken into custody. That person turned out to be a maintenance worker. It\u2019s unclear when officers realized they had the wrong person in custody, but within minutes, one officer instructs them \u201cWe\u2019re gonna work on the premise that that\u2019s not him. We\u2019re gonna conduct a secondary search.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city released those records Monday, saying they waited at the request of the victims\u2032 families until after a memorial service was held the previous week on Brown\u2019s campus. Smiley said he had spoken to the victims and their families in recent days.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of their kids are working really hard at moving forward and moving on, and releases like today they fear will make it harder to move forward,\u201d he said, describing them as \u201cremarkably strong and resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Details of the shooting<\/p>\n

On Dec. 13, gunman Claudio Neves Valente, 48, entered a study session in a Brown academic building and opened fire on students, killing 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook and 18-year-old freshman MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and wounding nine others.<\/p>\n

A newly released police incident report reiterated the emotional moments law enforcement had previously shared about hospitalized victims responding to photos of the suspected shooter.<\/p>\n

One victim \u201cquickly froze, physically pushed back\u201d and began crying and shaking as she confirmed the image matched the person who shot her. Another victim \u201ctook a deep breath, shut his eyes, changed his breathing pattern and confirmed that the shooter he saw in the hallway appeared to be the person in the photos presented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities say Neves Valente, who had been a graduate student at Brown<\/a> studying physics during the 2000-01 school year, also fatally shot Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro<\/a> at Loureiro\u2019s Boston-area home.<\/p>\n

Neves Valente, who had attended school with Loureiro in Portugal in the 1990s, was found dead days<\/a> after the shooting in a New Hampshire storage facility.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has since said Neves Valente planned the attack for years<\/a> and left behind videos in which he confessed to the killings but gave no motive. The FBI recovered the electronic device containing the series of videos during a search of the storage facility where Neves Valente\u2019s body was found<\/a>.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 A new video from the day of the Brown University shooting that killed two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,174058,177214,23276,3071,175162,793,7922,4381,2001,6377,3,11748,880,30020,200479,4382,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-458820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-brett-smiley","tag-claudio-neves-valente","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-crime","tag-ella-cook","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-law-enforcement","tag-massachusetts","tag-national","tag-news","tag-providence","tag-rhode-island","tag-school-shootings","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-shootings","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}