On Saturday, December 13, 2025, “a winter afternoon at Brown University was shattered”
when gunfire broke out inside the Barus & Holley engineering building.Two students were killed and nine others wounded as “students and faculty fled hallways, barricaded rooms, and called for help.”
The gunman “fled on foot,” prompting a campus-wide lockdown and a large police response.
Brown canceled classes and expanded counseling as the campus mourned.