Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island issued an active shooter alert and urged students and staff to take shelter during the second day of final exams on Saturday. Police did not immediately release details about the number of victims, their conditions or the circumstances of the shooting. “God bless the victims and the families of the victims!” he said on his social media site. Students were urged to shelter in place as police responded to the scene, and people were told to avoid the area. Brown is a private institution with roughly 7,300 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate students.

Source: The Times December 13, 2025 23:12 UTC