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What's next for Brown University in the wake of shooting

WBUR | By Anthony Brooks
Published December 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM EST
Flowers and candles surround photos of Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Va., and Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., in front of a Brown University gate in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Leah Willingham/AP)
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Flowers and candles surround photos of Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Va., and Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., in front of a Brown University gate in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Leah Willingham/AP)

Brown University and the communities surrounding it are trying to grapple with a shooting that took the lives of two students and injured nine others. Many are left scared, vulnerable, and unsure of what’s next.

WBUR’s Anthony Brooks reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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