Two people were killed and eight are in critical condition after a shooting at Brown University’s Barus and Holley engineering building on Saturday afternoon. The suspect remains at large, and a shelter-in-place order is currently active for the campus area.
The incident was reported as an active shooter situation around 4:05 pm on Saturday 13 Dec 2025 (US Time) during final exams.
Authorities are still searching for the suspect, who was described as a male dressed in all black. He fled the scene on the Hope Street side of the building.
Authorities say two people were killed at the scene and eight others are in critical but stable condition in hospital.
An update from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) reported shots fired near Governor Street. No suspects have been taken into custody, according to a 5:10 DPS alert.
DPS sent the alert to students immediately following the incident, urging students to hide, run or evacuate until further notice.
A suspect was allegedly in custody at 4:50 p.m., according to an alert from DPS, but another alert 20 minutes later said that no suspects were in custody.
Katie Sun ’28 was studying in the Engineering Research Center lobby when she heard gunshots around 4:10 p.m. She evacuated the building, leaving behind all her belongings, and ran to her dorm for safety.
“It was honestly quite terrifying. The shots seemed like they were coming from … where the classrooms are,” she said.
Refath Bari GS was walking down the stairs in the ERC when he heard gunshots.
“There was confusion and then people started running,” he said. “I ran as fast as I could to the other side of the street towards Thayer Street, and then I found a student and went into her apartment.”
Sruti Peddi ’28 said that while in Zinneken’s on Thayer Street, she began receiving numerous texts and phone calls from friends, who said they heard shots near Hegeman Hall.
“I was hearing then that the shooter left and started walking up Thayer Street,” Peddi wrote. “I was worried because I was there, and there were sirens passing us.”
Brown University is in Providence, Rhode Island.
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