First, my heart goes out to all who were shot or needed to flee or shelter and their families and friends. I am finding this coverage interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL8PO8qmbaI
MS NOW is reporting live. Hunt for a suspect continues. So horrible.
Gift link for WaPo coverage, in which a student mentions, secondhand, a known victim (thigh wound - not fatal) from a specific classroom study session. https://wapo.st/4iVCRfj
Gift link for NY Times coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/13/us/brown-shooting?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.2_7Y.otUVem_qL6LP&smid=url-share
Hope these work.
NY Times now reporting “The shooting happened during a final exam review session for a Principles of Economics class, according to the class’s professor, Rachel Friedberg. The classroom was on the first floor of the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building. The authorities said the gunman exited the building on the Hope Street side.” This is consistent with the prior WaPo coverage.
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Suspect in custody. Shelter in place lifted
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Two current Brown University students had already survived prior school shootings.
This is where we are. For shame, America.
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“The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,” said Weissman. “And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that any more.”
Every future parent in America should be mortified after reading this. They won’t be but should be.
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America lost our souls the day we allowed an entire classroom full of first graders to be slaughtered by a stranger and did absolutely nothing about it. We should be ashamed of ourselves that these young women have now suffered this trauma twice. My heart goes out to all the parents and kids.
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S23 was thankfully off campus when the shooting happened, he’s an engineering major and was in the engineering building just a few hours prior. It’s absolutely terrible, being a parent and having to watch the news and watch everything play out. Final exams are cancelled, S23 flies home tomorrow. What a sad weekend it’s been.
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Woke up to the Paxson letter this morning, which was the first I heard of it. We were just there and love the Brown and larger College Hill community.
I can’t imagine being in charge of a university community and waking up to this news, knowing I now have to reach out to literally thousands of people who will be reading carefully every word I write.
Terrible. How will we ever get our hands around this issue?
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Any answer to that probably belongs in the political forum 
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Sadly, you’re right. It’s one of those topics that will be reduced to partisan politics almost immediately.
Maddening.
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I am going to vomit the first “thoughts and prayers” comment from a lawmaker that I read. No matter which side of the aisle.
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It’s all so surreal, my Brown student was in an exam and had recently had mass incident training with EMS. The professor was not in the room, only a senior proctor as there was multiple test locations. He took charge and locked and barricaded doors, counted people and got names, and kept room quiet so they could hear until police were on scene. Then had an already scheduled 12 hour shift that night. Sort of felt they were safer doing that then sheltering in place at the time. The police escorted them to station.
Deeply saddened for the families, truly no words to convey the depth of this senseless loss. Eager for him to get home, but know he’s still helping there and that’s how he best processes things. He’d be restless at home.
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The person detained in the Brown shooting was found in a hotel, with 2 weapons. He is 24 years old and from Wisconsin.
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That phrase has lost all prior meaning and now is almost a tag line for 2nd Amendment fanatics.
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ICYMI, here’s Paxson’s message