At least 12 people dead as Bondi Beach attack declared act of terrorism
At least 12 people, including a gunman, have been confirmed dead after a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening.
Two police officers are in surgery and are among 29 people injured.
The incident has been declared an act of terrorism.
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At least 12 people, including one shooter, have been killed at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, in what has been declared a terrorist incident.
The second alleged shooter was in police custody and in a critical condition after the attack on Sunday evening.
Twenty-nine people were injured, including two police officers who were among those shot and undergoing surgery.
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NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the officers were “verging on critical”.
A senior law enforcement official confirmed that one of the gunmen was Naveed Akram from Bonnyrigg in Sydney’s south-west.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Mr Akram’s home in Bonnyrigg was being raided by police.
Suspected improvised explosive devices (IED) were located at the scene and were removed just before 11pm.
It is understood the IEDs were located close to a bridge where the shooters were firing from and were transported away from the scene in an armoured car.
The scene is no longer an exclusion zone and has been handed over to crime scene investigators.
Reports of a shooting started about 6:47pm at Archer Park — the grassed area just north of the Bondi Pavilion.
A Hanukkah event was taking place at the time.
Terrorist incident declared
Commissioner Lanyon said that, due to a number of circumstances, he had declared it a terrorist attack.
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“Obviously, the fact that it’s the first day of Hanukkah, the types of weapons, the offenders, some of the other items that we found at the scene,” he said.
“We have found an improvised explosive device in a car which is linked to the deceased offender.
“The Jewish community has a right to feel safe.”
He said one of the offenders had “very, very little knowledge to the police”, and he was not someone “that we would have automatically been looking at at this time”.
When asked about reports of a third shooter, Commissioner Lanyon said police needed to get the investigation right.
“Often in this sort of situation, a lot of things happen at once,” Commissioner Lanyon said.
“We need to make sure that we get this information right.”
He added that he had authorised special powers to “ensure that if there is a third offender” police would “prevent any further activity”.
Commissioner Lanyon said the counterterrorism command would lead the investigation with the support of the state crime command.
“No stone will be left unturned. This type of disgraceful activity, this wanton use of violence, the taking of innocent lives is unacceptable to New South Wales,” he said.
The commissioner said he did not believe any children were among the dead, but a child was transported to hospital.
He called for calm and said he wanted to “make sure that there is no retribution” within the community.
Premier condemns attack
NSW Premier Chris Minns called the incident an “evil attack”.
“What should have been a night of peace and joy celebrated in that community with families and supporters has been shattered by this horrifying evil attack,” Mr Minns said.
“Our heart bleeds for Australia’s Jewish community tonight. I can only imagine the pain that they’re feeling right now to see their loved ones killed as they celebrate this ancient holiday.”
He assured the community there would be a massive and comprehensive public order response from the police.
“This is a massive, complex and just beginning investigation. It’s just begun and there are things that tonight we don’t have the answers to.”How the Bondi Beach terrorist attack unfolded
Videos and witness accounts from Bondi Beach have been shared widely. This is what they tell us about how the shooting unfolded.
Speaking of a member of the public who wrestled a gun from one of the offenders, the premier described him as a “genuine hero”.
He “put his own life at risk to save the lives of countless other people … and there are many people alive tonight thanks to his bravery”.
Earlier in a post on social media, police called it a “developing incident”, urging people to avoid the area.
Emergency services attended the scene, including more than 25 resources made up of medical teams, ambulances, helicopters and special operations units.
A Chanukah by the Sea event was scheduled to take place near the children’s playground from 5pm, and had begun.
Footage of the grass area at the beach shows a frantic and horrific scene, with multiple people lying on the ground injured as paramedics work on them.
People can be seen running away from the area, others have got bandages on their head, and other people are covered in blood.
‘It was panic’
Randwick resident and former journalist Elizabeth Mealey said she was having dinner in the Icebergs restaurant when she heard shots ring out.
“We thought it was fireworks, but it wasn’t. It was something much worse,” she told the ABC.
“People started running right up the beach. It was panic and the panic spread to Icebergs, and people are standing around still not knowing what’s going on, so it’s scary.”
She said she could not see the gunmen, but it sounded like the shooting was coming from somewhere near the Bondi Pavilion.
“It felt like it took a long time to hear a siren,” she said.
“We’ve got a helicopter coming in now and ambulance is arriving. It’s pandemonium and we really don’t know what’s happening.”
She said she saw people running from north Bondi to the south end to get away from what they could hear.
“We did hear what sounded like another type of gunfire eventually, which we were hoping and assuming it was police shooting back.
“And after that, it went a bit quieter but still kept up. But at this point, we are assuming it’s over, but no-one really knows.
“It’s terrifying.”Bondi shooting witnesses recall running for their lives as attackers open fire
Bondi Beach has been described as “hell on earth” by witnesses who were at the scene as gunshots rang out just after 6:30pm on Sunday.
ABC deputy head of communications, Sally Jackson, was in North Bondi when she heard about 20 shots fired and saw people running from the beach in their swimmers.
She said women and their children were knocking on gates and asking to shelter at nearby homes.
“There was like Jewish women and children, incredibly distressed, very, very distressed and scared, who went upstairs to the bedroom here and stayed here until we could arrange for family members to come and pick them up,” Ms Jackson said.
‘An act of evil antisemitism’: PM
Speaking after urgently convening a meeting of the National Security Committee, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia stood by the Jewish community.
“[This is] an act of evil antisemitism, terrorism, that has struck the heart of our nation,”
he said.
“An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.
“The evil that was unleashed at Bondi Beach today is beyond comprehension, and the trauma and loss that families are dealing with tonight is beyond anyone’s worst nightmare.
“Australia will never submit to division, violence or hatred. We will see justice done and we will come through this together.”
The Jewish Council of Australia said it was “horrified and shaken” by the attack.
“To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close,” executive officer Sarah Schwartz said.
2 Students Killed and 9 Injured in Brown University Shooting
Hundreds of police officers were searching for the gunman after he escaped into the streets of Rhode Island’s capital, officials said.
Published Dec. 13, 2025Updated Dec. 18, 2025
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Reporting from Providence, R.I., and Chicago.
Here’s what to know.
Hundreds of police officers swarmed the streets near Brown University late Saturday, shining flashlights into parked cars in search of a gunman who opened fire in a campus building, killing two students and injuring nine more.
Officials indicated that they had not identified the attacker, who escaped onto the streets of Rhode Island’s capital. They planned to release a video shortly that shows the gunman leaving the scene of the attack, though his face is not visible.
“If anybody should recognize this person in any way — seen him earlier, recognize his gait — obviously, we want to know about that,” said Deputy Chief Timothy O’Hara of the Providence police.
Much of Providence remained on edge hours after the attack, which began during a final exam review session for a large economics class, with residents staying behind locked doors as the search stretched into the night. Many students hid in dorms, while others took shelter in the basement of a popular tea shop.
Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence said at a news conference late Saturday that officials had identified a ninth victim who was injured by “fragments,” in addition to the eight who were shot and taken to the hospital in critical condition. The university later said that all of the victims were students.
Here are the details:
Where it happened: 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.
City at a standstill: Many restaurants and businesses in Providence closed early on Saturday, including the downtown mall. Mayor Smiley said an official shelter-in-place order only applied to Brown’s campus and the surrounding neighborhood, however. “We have no reason to believe that there is any particular threat beyond the campus area,” he said.
Chaotic situation: University officials sent at least two incorrect alerts to students and faculty members, saying at one point that a suspect had been taken into custody before reversing that, then reporting around 5:30 p.m. that more shots had been fired off campus close to Governor Street. They later backtracked and said that report was also incorrect.Show more
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Brown University said in a statement early Sunday that the two people killed and nine others injured in the shooting were all students. “This is a day of tremendous sorrow. No parent or family member should ever have to endure a day like this,” the university said.
Dec. 14, 2025, 1:09 a.m. ETDec. 14, 2025
Katherine RosmanAshley Ahn and Jenna Russell
A Brown teaching assistant hid from gunfire with his students.
Joseph Oduro was leading an economics study session at Brown University on Saturday afternoon when a masked man carrying a rifle burst into his classroom of about 60 students and started shooting.
The session for the Principles of Economics class, scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in an engineering building on the Brown campus, was nearly over. “I was just teaching my review, like usual,” Mr. Oduro, a 21-year-old senior and teaching assistant, said in an interview.
A little after 4 p.m., he ended the session, which was to be his last time teaching that particular group of students, and said goodbye. “I was telling my students that I am so grateful for them,” he said.
As they stood to leave, he said, “all of a sudden, we heard gunshots and people screaming” in the hall outside.
About three seconds later, he said, a man with a face mask and a rifle entered the classroom and started shooting. The man screamed something that Mr. Oduro said was imperceptible. “That’s what the students and I — and the detectives — have been trying to piece together,” he said.
The classroom is a first-floor lecture hall that has a capacity of 186 and is among the largest in the building, according to Brown University’s website.
Mr. Oduro, who is studying applied mathematics, economics and computer science, described the room as having rows of seats separated by two aisles, similar to stadium seating. He said that the middle row had about 10 seats and that the rows on the sides were smaller, with about three seats each.
He said he hid behind a desk with about 20 other students, and that one was shot in the leg.
About 20 other students ran out of the room’s side doors, he said. The students who were sitting in the middle row had a harder time escaping the gunfire. “The students in the middle were impacted the most,” he said. “Many of them were lying there and they were not moving. I have no idea how many.”
Principles of Economics is an introductory class and prerequisite for a handful of the intermediate economics courses at the university. The teaching assistant said that the class has approximately 475 registered students. More than 80 percent of those students are freshmen.
Saturday’s review session was one of five in total offered before the final exam on Tuesday.Show more
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Dec. 14, 2025, 12:38 a.m. ETDec. 14, 2025
At least two students at Brown have survived school shootings before.
At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before.
One is Mia Tretta, a junior who was shot in the abdomen during a 2019 shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif.
Ms. Tretta, 21, was studying for a final exam in her Brown dormitory on Saturday when she learned of the attack. She had been planning to study at the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooting took place, but had changed her mind because she felt tired, she said in an interview.
“People always think, well, it’ll never be me,” said Ms. Tretta, one of five students shot in Santa Clarita, two of them fatally, by a 16-year-old classmate. “And until I was shot in my school, I also thought the same thing.”
Another Brown student, Zoe Weissman, 20, was 12 when she witnessed the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., from outside her middle school next door. She said she developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the shooting, in which 17 people were killed.
Ms. Weissman, a Brown sophomore, was in her dorm room during the attack on Saturday afternoon. She learned about it when a friend called to warn her.
Initially, she felt panicked and numb, she said. Those feelings gave way to anger. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” she said.
Both women said the shooting had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime.
“The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,” Ms. Weissman said. “And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that anymore.”
Ms. Tretta said she had chosen Brown University because of its secure, intimate feel. “It felt like a safer place after my whole sense of safety, my whole sense of innocence, was taken away at Saugus.”
But the worst had happened to her community again, she said.Show more
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There is no credible information of an ongoing specific threat to the community, Mayor Smiley said, adding that the authorities were not recommending residents cancel their Sunday plans.
Dec. 14, 2025, 12:10 a.m. ETDec. 14, 2025
The shelter in place order for the campus and the surrounding area will remain in place while the police is canvassing the neighborhood and looking for evidence, Mayor Smiley said. There will be an “enhanced and visible” law enforcement presence in the area on Sunday, he said.
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Mayor Smiley said that this is the last news conference officials will hold tonight unless there is a major development.
Dec. 14, 2025, 12:04 a.m. ETDec. 14, 2025
Mayor Brett Smiley said in a news conference late Saturday night that the video footage the police released on social media shows the person they believe to be the shooter. “We know there is no clear shot of the face,” he said, referring to the video which shows a person walking with his back to the camera.
Dec. 14, 2025, 12:04 a.m. ETDec. 14, 2025
Many Brown students are being led to the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center. Dozens of students are waiting in line to be searched before entering. The wait is longer for women because there are fewer women police officers to conduct those searches.
Dec. 14, 2025, 12:02 a.m. ETDec. 14, 2025
Brown University officials announced around 11 p.m. that police would escort all individuals from non-residential buildings within a part of campus to safe locations outside a perimeter. They directed all others on Brown’s campus and the surrounding neighborhood to continue sheltering in place.
Dec. 13, 2025, 11:43 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mark Arsenault and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Reporting from Providence, R.I.
The shooting shuttered Providence and Brown’s campus.
Like a lot of doctoral students on a wintry Saturday afternoon in December, 32-year-old Chiang-Heng Chien was working. He was in an engineering lab at Brown University when the alert sounded on his phone: Shooter on campus. Shelter in place.
“We closed the door, had the lights off, and went under desks,” he said. For hours they waited in the dark, a block away from the Barus & Holley building, where an unidentified gunman killed two people and wounded at least nine. Police said the shooting took place inside a classroom on the engineering building’s first floor.
Within minutes after the shooting, the elegant East Side of Providence around the Ivy League University, tastefully decorated with Christmas wreaths and candles in windows, transformed into a nightmarish blare of sirens, flashing emergency lights, and dozens of ambulances stacked up and waiting.
Police officers in armor and helmets and armed with shotguns and rifles spread over the neighborhood. Armored vehicles lingered on many street corners. Roads were barricaded by police cars and yellow crime tape. Multiple helicopters loudly droned from above, flying concentric circles over the scene. More than 400 law enforcement officers were in the area.
At 11 p.m., the gunman was still at large.
“An unthinkable nightmare,” Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island said of the shooting.
The streets around Brown normally would be bustling on a Saturday evening with students and residents jostling to get into the many restaurants and bars. Instead, on this Saturday evening, a few residents lingered outside, swapping stories about what they had seen, and reading social media posts to each other. Mostly, the streets were empty of people, in accord with a shelter in place order for the university.
Police officers roamed in pairs and in sets of four, shining lights into alleys and into parked cars, in a search for a suspect that stretched on for hours. Unverified videos shared online showed students lining a hallway, holding their hands up, while police forced open doors, searching for the shooter; another showed police escorting evacuees onto a bus.
A medical examiner for the state of Rhode Island said he had never seen anything like it. A life long Providence resident call the scene “surreal.”
The shooting took place on the eastern edge of Brown University’s campus, where college buildings are interspersed with elegant Victorian homes and several elite private schools.
For the students toiling through the mundane chores of studying for their semester’s final exams suddenly they were sheltering in place for hours, waiting for a sign or an email that they found leave.
But as they watched social media all they found was misinformation, some said, including from President Trump, who said on Truth social that the shooter had been apprehended only to walk back his statement minutes later.
After about two hours in hiding, Mr. Chien and his friends were discovered by the police. The officers searched them, and then sent them out so the search of the building could continue. They left without coats into a dark and frigid evening. “We don’t know where we’re supposed to go now,” Mr. Chien said. “We brought nothing with us.”
Michelle Cheng, owner of Ceremony Tea, said she was able to find lodging for several students at a nearby apartment complex as the shelter in place continued. “This is so messed up, “ she said through tears. “I left everything at home to my husband and raced over because we need to be here for our customers.”
Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence said on CNN that the exterior doors of the Barus & Holley building — where the shooting was reported to have taken place — were unlocked because of multiple final exams. “Based on what we heard from officials at Brown, anybody could have accessed the building at that time,” he said.
Kevin G. Andrade contributed reporting.Show more
Dec. 13, 2025, 11:22 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
The Providence police released a video on social media that officials said showed a person of interest in the shooting. The person is seen walking with his back to the camera and turning the corner on Hope Street, where the engineering building is located. He is wearing dark clothing, but the footage was taken from a distance and the person’s face was not visible.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:59 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Mayor Smiley ended the news conference, promising to provide more updates, as 400 officers searched for the gunman. “Every minute matters. We know every minute matters.”
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:58 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Mayor Smiley said the outer doors of the engineering building were unlocked at the time of the shooting. While authorities don’t have video of the gunman entering or moving through the building, the mayor said, they were hopeful they may find some footage.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:51 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Though many restaurants and businesses in Providence closed early, including the downtown mall, Mayor Smiley said the shelter-in-place order was only for Brown’s campus and the surrounding neighborhood. “We have no reason to believe that there is any particular threat beyond the campus area,” he said.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:50 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
The deputy Providence police chief said the shooting took place inside a classroom on the engineering building’s first floor. No weapon has been recovered, he said. The gunman “could be in his 30s, but we’re not positive,” he added.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Deputy Chief O’Hara said “we’ve had some tips” about the gunman, but “none of them have worked out for us yet.” He said investigators have “a little bit better” idea about the suspect than they did a couple of hours ago, “but we’re still not there yet.”
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:48 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Timothy O’Hara, the deputy Providence police chief, said the video that officials would release shows the gunman leaving the area of the shooting. His face is not visible in the video, and he was wearing dark clothing. “If anybody should recognize this person in any way — seen him earlier, recognize his gait — obviously, we want to know about that,” O’Hara said.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:40 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
The mayor said more than 400 law enforcement officers were in the area helping with the investigation and with keeping the area safe. He also said firefighters had been sent to places where people were gathering. “We have no reason to believe that there are any additional threats,” Mayor Smiley added.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:38 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence is holding a second news conference about the shooting. He said a ninth injured victim has been identified. That person has non-life-threatening injuries from “fragments” related to the gunfire.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:38 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Mayor Smiley said the gunman remains at large, but that officials would soon release a video that showed the suspect.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:38 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
The shooting happened during a final exam review session in a Principles of Economics class, according to the class’s professor, Rachel Friedberg. She did not immediately respond to a message seeking more information.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:28 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Dana GoldsteinEducation reporter
Brown University is one of America’s oldest educational institutions.
Brown University, the site of a fatal shooting on Saturday, sits high on a hill in Providence, R.I., set within a historic neighborhood of elegant Victorian homes. One of the campus’s beloved features is that it is not fenced off, but open to the wider city.
That openness may have helped the shooter escape the scene on Saturday. Authorities reported that a male, dressed in black, exited a campus building onto Hope Street, a main artery, and then seemingly disappeared into the night.
The shooting, which injured eight others, according to the authorities, came during an extraordinarily difficult period for Brown, an Ivy League school founded in 1764.
Over the past year, it has been a primary target of President Trump. In April, the White House moved to block over $500 million in research funding to Brown, accusing it of allowing antisemitism to fester during pro-Palestinian protests. The university reached a settlement with the administration in July that restored funding but disappointed some students, faculty and alumni who saw it as a capitulation to Mr. Trump.
Brown students and alumni often point out how the university differs from the rest of the Ivy League. In 1969, Brown inaugurated an open curriculum. There are no required core classes for undergraduates, and students are free to set their own course of study, taking classes on a pass-fail basis if they wish.
Those policies helped to make the school a magnet for free-spirited students. The campus also became a center of political activism on racial equity, labor rights and divestment from Israel, among other issues.
Last year, as part of a compromise negotiated with student protesters to disband a pro-Palestinian encampment, Brown’s governing board took a vote on divesting from companies involved in Israeli military and security activities. While Jewish students were among the leaders of the divestment effort, the proposal attracted opposition from Jewish alumni, donors and students. It was voted down by the board.
In a statement after the vote, Christina H. Paxson, the president of Brown University, and Brian Moynihan, the chancellor of the governing board, said: “Brown’s mission is to discover, communicate and preserve knowledge. It is not to adjudicate or resolve global conflicts.” Brown later adopted a Statement of University Values and Voice that promised the institution would “refrain from expressing positions on topics unrelated to its mission” of education and research.
At times, Brown has been the target of ridicule and protest from conservative media figures and advocacy groups. Over several decades, critics called attention to the school’s sexually experimental party scene, its ardent protest culture and its publication of a high school curriculum series that was critical of Israel.
Though the university’s politics often attract attention, Brown maintains many mainstream, highly-regarded academic programs. Its computer science department is a leader in computer graphics, and its medical school offers a unique program that encourages future physicians to also study the liberal arts in depth.
In the humanities, Brown’s faculty includes Gordon S. Wood, a leading historian of the American Revolution. The university has also produced many well-known writers, including the novelists Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides and Marilynne Robinson.
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An earlier version of this article misstated how much of Brown’s research funding the White House sought to block earlier this year. It was $500 million, not $500 billion.Show more
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:14 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence is expected to hold another news conference at 9:30 p.m. to update residents on the shooting and manhunt. Police and fire department officials are expected to join him.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:09 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Kevin AndradeReporting from Providence, R.I.
The Providence Place mall, a major shopping center downtown, was cleared and closed before its usual 9 p.m. shutdown. The Cheesecake Factory restaurant, which typically stays open until 11 p.m. on Saturday, is also closing early.
Dec. 13, 2025, 9:08 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
While the shelter-in-place order remains active at Brown’s campus, Providence College, a couple of miles away, said it was “strongly encouraging all students to remain in their residence halls and/or off campus houses at this time.”
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:41 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island described the shooting as “an unthinkable nightmare” in a brief interview and said members of the Rhode Island Medical Reserve Corps had been mobilized to provide counseling to people in Providence. “This is something that’s going to impact families and people’s lives for a lifetime,” he said.
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:42 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
McKee said he had spoken to Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and that local, state and federal officers were all searching for the gunman. “Everyone is working under the same goal right now — to keep everybody in that area safe, and also to pursue” the attacker, the governor said.
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:39 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mitch SmithNational reporter
Brown University officials said just before 8:30 p.m. that “campus continues to be in lockdown, and it is imperative that all members of our community remain sheltered in place.”
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:39 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Kevin AndradeReporting from Providence, R.I.
Michelle Cheng owns Ceremony Tea, a popular off-campus spot where customers, including students, took shelter in the basement in the aftermath of the shooting. She said she was able to find lodging for several students at a nearby apartment complex until they can return to their own residences. “This is so messed up, ” she said through tears.
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:36 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Eight patients from the shooting were being treated at Rhode Island Hospital, a spokeswoman said. Six were in critical but stable condition, one was in critical condition, and another was in stable condition, she said. The hospital, like the campus and other parts of Providence, is on lockdown as police seek the gunman, but is still accepting emergency patients.
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:11 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence told CNN that the doors of the Barus and Holley building where the shooting took place were unlocked because many final exams were being held there. “Based on what we heard from officials at Brown, anybody could have accessed the building at that time,” he said.
Dec. 13, 2025, 8:00 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Kevin AndradeReporting from Providence, R.I.
Brown University resembles a fortified outpost as FBI and ATF agents swarm across campus to search for the gunman. Police from across Rhode Island are also here, including armed tactical units.
Dec. 13, 2025, 7:56 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Brown’s president, Christina H. Paxson, said it was a “deeply tragic day” in a message shared with students on Saturday evening. “We know our community wants answers, and we will provide them as soon as we can,” she said. “For now, please know we are doing all we can to keep our community safe and have mobilized support for the students and their families.”
Dec. 13, 2025, 7:38 p.m. ETDec. 13, 2025
Thomas Gibbons-NeffReporting from Providence, R.I.
Police cruisers with high-powered search lights are slowly patrolling streets in the College Hill neighborhood, near the campus building where the shooting happened. Officers peered into parked cars with flashlights and lights mounted to shotguns, searching for the gunman.
