New video footage from the deadly Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine others was released Monday by Providence city officials. The footage captures the chaotic police response following the December 13, 2025 attack.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley explained in a statement that officials had redacted the most graphic images to “maintain the trust we have built in our community” while balancing transparency requirements under public records laws.
“It is incredibly important to me that the city of Providence remains fully transparent, accountable and compliant with the state’s Access to Public Records Act,” Smiley said in a statement.
The newly released materials include approximately 20 minutes of body camera footage from the officer in charge during the initial response, showing first responders searching for victims and the shooter amid confusion. The footage begins at 4:16 p.m., about 11 minutes after the shooting occurred.
“As of right now, with the absence of better information, we’re going to go with the shooter might still be in this building, so use caution,” the officer-in-charge tells other responders in the video released by the city.
Audio recordings reveal a Brown University police officer calling city police at 4:07 p.m., saying: “This is Brown police. We have confirmed gunshots at 184 Hope Street. We do have a victim but we do not know where they are.” Four minutes later, campus police called back with a suspect description: “wearing all black and a ski mask, unknown travel direction.”
The shooting claimed the lives of 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook and 18-year-old freshman MukhammadAziz Umurzokov. Nine others were wounded inside the Barus and Holley Building.
According to police reports, students were in an auditorium when they heard shots fired from the rear of the room. Some ran behind the teacher’s desk for cover until law enforcement arrived. Evidence collected from the scene included 44 9mm shell casings, one unfired cartridge, and numerous projectile fragments.
The gunman, 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, had been a graduate student at Brown studying physics during the 2000-01 school year. Authorities say he also fatally shot Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at Loureiro’s Boston-area home.
A newly released police incident report described emotional moments when hospitalized victims identified the shooter from photos. One victim “quickly froze, physically pushed back” and began crying while confirming the image matched her attacker.
The Justice Department has stated that Neves Valente planned the attack for years and left behind confession videos but gave no motive. His body was found days after the shooting in a New Hampshire storage facility, where he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The city delayed releasing these records at the request of victims’ families until after a memorial service held last week on Brown’s campus.
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