Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

Framed photos of mass shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook are seen at a makeshift memorial near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. A gunman remained at large after a weekend mass shooting at elite Brown University left two dead and nine wounded, with US authorities releasing new footage of a masked "person of interest" captured on surveillance cameras. The shooting took place December 13 in a building where exams were underway on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island when a man with a rifle burst in and opened fire before fleeing. Photo by Bing Guan/AFP

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1765947265050Screen Shot 2025-12-17 at 12.53.51 PM_cropped_processed_by_imagy.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Framed photos of mass shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook are seen at a makeshift memorial near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. Photo by Bing Guan/AFP</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>NEW YORK, United States — FBI experts on Tuesday combed through the vicinity of a weekend mass shooting that killed two students at the elite Brown University, as the hunt for the gunman dragged into a fourth day.</p><p>Images posted by the bureau on social media showed laboratory specialists and evidence response teams conducting a forensic search on the snow-covered grounds outside the Providence, Rhode Island campus.</p><p>The shooting happened Saturday, when a man with a rifle burst into a campus building where exams were underway and opened fire, before fleeing.</p><p>Providence officials screened a new video timeline at a briefing Tuesday which appeared to show the person of interest walking through residential areas in the town.</p><p>&quot;There&#x27;s enhanced video footage so we are asking the public to see the body movements, the body posture... that may help you identify this individual,&quot; said the town&#x27;s police chief colonel, Oscar Perez.</p><p>Perez renewed his appeal for members of the public with homes and vehicles equipped with cameras to supply footage to the police.</p><p>Two-hundred actionable tips had been received by investigators, he added.</p><p>Authorities initially detained a man in connection with the shooting, but they later released him, saying he was unconnected.</p><p>The FBI, which is offering a $50,000 reward for the suspect&#x27;s capture, said he should be considered &quot;armed and dangerous&quot; and described him as &quot;approximately 5 foot 8 inches with a stocky build.&quot;</p><p>On Tuesday, Brown University called on its students who may have been in the area of the shooting Saturday to arrange for a police interview.</p><p>Later in the day, it also issued a statement, denouncing &quot;accusations, speculation and conspiracies&quot; voiced on social media against one of its students.</p><p>&quot;If this individual&#x27;s name had any relevance to the current investigation, they would be actively looking for this individual and providing information publicly,&quot; the school said.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>TRIBUTES TO VICTIMS</strong></div><div><br/></div><p>The two students killed were Ella Cook, vice president of Brown&#x27;s Republican Party association, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, originally from Uzbekistan, who had hoped to become a neurosurgeon.</p><p>&quot;Ella, who came to Brown from Mountain Brook, Alabama, was a passionate and intellectually curious member of our community who was interested in French and Francophone studies,&quot; Brown president Christina H. Paxson said.</p><p>&quot;Mukhammad... was known for being driven, conscientious and disciplined, particularly as he pursued his deep ambition to make a positive impact in the world by becoming a neurosurgeon.&quot;</p><p>The attack is the latest incident of mass shooting in the United States, where attempts to restrict access to firearms face political deadlock.</p><p>There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.</p><p>During a Christmas event Sunday at the White House, US President Donald Trump spoke briefly about the shooting, saying &quot;things can happen&quot; and wishing the injured to &quot;get well fast.&quot;</p><p>Brown, which has around 11,000 students, issued an emergency alert on Saturday following reports of a shooting near its engineering and physics departments. Two exams had been scheduled at the time.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qhSQ8J6Uo4A?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iiPjL09XH7Q?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Brown University called on its students who may have been in the area of the shooting Saturday to arrange for a police interview.</p>

Brown University called on its students who may have been in the area of the shooting Saturday to arrange for a police interview.

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FBI widens net in hunt for Brown University shooter

Gregory Walton,

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Published December 17, 2025 01:00 PM PHT

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