The Providence Police Department unveiled body camera footage on Monday, providing a glimpse into officers’ actions during the December 13 shooting incident at Brown University. This release also included audio from emergency calls and radio communications related to the event.
In response to public records requests, some sections of the materials were edited to safeguard the privacy of victims and witnesses, omit graphic or sensitive content, and adhere to the Access to Public Records Act’s exemptions.
Audio released shows that communication between Brown University Police and Providence emergency dispatch commenced shortly after 4 p.m., as initial reports of the shooting were reported.
At around 4:11 p.m., a caller informed police that a suspect was described as wearing all black and a ski mask, though their direction of travel was unknown.
The police conducted a thorough search, combing each floor after the December 13, 2025, shooting at Brown University. (Providence Police Department)
Subsequent body camera footage records the commanding officer alerting dispatch at 4:16 p.m., stating, “Be advised, it’s an active shooter situation.”
Police then conducted a methodical, floor-by-floor search of the Barus & Holley building in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, directing responding units to look for the suspect and any additional victims.
Two students, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, and Ella Cook, 19, were shot and killed by Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente inside the building’s Tanner Auditorium, also known as Room 166, during an economics exam review session, according to the newly released Providence police incident report.
Police search floor-by-floor after a shooting at Brown University on Dec. 13, 2025. (Providence Police Department)
Nine other victims were ultimately transported to Rhode Island Hospital with gunshot wounds.
The report describes the auditorium as having staircases running up both sides with entrances at the top and bottom of the room. Umurzokov was found deceased near the upper entry door, while Cook was found dead on the floor between the aisles.
As the investigation into the shooting unfolded, detectives later showed still images of Neves-Valente taken from surveillance video to several shooting victims.
One victim, who told detectives she had gotten a good look at the shooter, reacted strongly upon seeing the photograph, freezing, physically pushing back, and becoming visibly emotional.
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts released this image showing the man identified in deadly shootings at both Brown University in Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. (Justice Department)
Police noted she began tearing up and shaking before confirming the image showed the shooter.
Two other victims were separately shown the images of the suspect and also identified Neves-Valente as the shooter, according to the incident report.
Investigators said Neves-Valente was a former Brown University student who attended the Ivy League school from 2000 to 2001 as part of a PhD program in physics before formally withdrawing in the fall of 2003.
He was found dead in December inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where FBI SWAT personnel discovered him with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers attempted to locate and arrest him.
