Brown College publicizes new security measures in wake of lethal mass taking pictures

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Following the Dec. 13 mass taking pictures at Brown College, faculty officers Tuesday introduced new security measures, together with installing security cameras contained in the Barus and Holley engineering and physics constructing the place 11 college students had been shot, together with two fatally.

In a letter to the neighborhood, Brown College Division of Public Security interim vp Hugh T. Clements Jr. stated speedy actions will embrace elevated public security staffing throughout campus, and continued use of card entry, keys or ID checks for constructing entry.

He added that earlier than the Spring 2026 semester, college police will transition remaining buildings utilizing key entry to card entry, develop blue-light telephones with cameras, set up safety cameras in key places, together with the Barus and Holley constructing, and develop panic buttons in important areas.

New trauma-informed safety and active-shooter preparedness coaching may also be supplied within the spring semester.

A makeshift memorial is seen on the Brown College campus close to the scene of a taking pictures in Windfall, R.I. (AP Picture/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Clements, who beforehand served as chief of the Providence Police Department , was not too long ago named Brown's interim public security vp after former chief Rodney Chatman was positioned on go away following a report from The Boston Globe , which alleged a college custodian, Derek Lisi, noticed the shooter at Barus and Holley weeks earlier than the incident and alerted a safety guard.

Authorities say 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a former Brown scholar, opened hearth contained in the elite college's engineering and physics constructing, killing college students Ella Cook dinner and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov , earlier than touring to Boston to kill MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. Days later, authorities found Neves-Valente dead by suicide in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire.

Inside view of Barus and Holley Room 166 on the campus of Brown College in Windfall, R.I. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Each day Herald)

The Department of Education opened an investigation into Brown College for potential violations of the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act (Clery Act), which requires faculties to satisfy campus security and safety necessities to obtain federal scholar help.

The division may also conduct an external after-action review of the incident and emergency response, and a complete, externally-led campus security and safety evaluation incorporating neighborhood enter, in accordance with Clements.

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"The Brown neighborhood has skilled an unspeakable tragedy," Clements wrote within the letter. "I need to say clearly and unequivocally: What occurred on Dec. 13 should never happen again —at Brown or anyplace—and we should confront that crucial for our neighborhood with steadfast function."

Guests pause at a makeshift memorial on the Van Wickle Gate at Brown College for the victims of a mass taking pictures. (AP Picture/Robert F. Bukaty)

"As I step into this function, I accomplish that totally conscious that there are important questions in regards to the power of our safety and security systems ," he added. "Acknowledging these questions shouldn't be about assigning blame—it's about duty, studying and enchancment. … Security requires greater than seen safety. It's constructed via preparation, transparency, belief and partnership."

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The division stated it would work on enhancing coordination with local agencies , enhancing emergency communications and coaching, and reinforcing consciousness of security and emergency assets.

Fox Information Digital's Adam Sabes contributed to this report.

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