Billionaire trustees stay silent as Brown University faces mounting campus murder fallout

Brown University’s committee of trustees, which features a apical slope CEO, billionaires, hedge money and banking leaders, authors, professors, actresses and scientists, has remained soundless aft the field murders that took spot earlier this month. 

While the superior work of the committee is to uphold the fiduciary work of the Ivy League assemblage and does not oversee day-to-day operations, the radical is the highest governing assemblage of the school, is liable for appointing and evaluating the president of the assemblage and approves strategical semipermanent strategy and readying for the apical college.

The committee conducts regular reviews of the assemblage president, and has authorization implicit the president’s employment. 

Despite its relation arsenic Brown University’s highest governing authorization with nonstop powerfulness implicit statesmanlike oversight and semipermanent strategy, the committee of trustees has declined to remark successful the aftermath of the murders that exposed superior lapses successful field security. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Trustees see salient Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, who serves arsenic the chancellor of the board, Goldman Sachs Chairman of Asset Management Division Rich Friedman, writer and Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson, Global Head of Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing Joe Dowling, histrion Margaret Munzer, erstwhile U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, Boston Legacy Football Club’s Ami Kuan Danoff, and different banking leaders and billionaires.

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Fox News Digital reached retired to each trustee connected the board, but did not person immoderate responses. 

Brown University president Christina Paxson has faced aggravated disapproval for the university’s handling of some equipping the schoolhouse with information resources to forestall the shooting, and field police’s inability to apprehend the slayer successful the aftermath of the murders.

Earlier this month, a lone gunman, whom constabulary identified arsenic Portuguese nationalist Claudio Neves-Valente, canvassed the field anterior to taking the lives of 2 Brown University students connected Dec. 13. Investigators recognition a stateless antheral who was surviving connected field with being a superior root successful identifying and yet locating the alleged shooter.

Images of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente displayed connected a projector surface astatine a quality briefing successful Providence, Rhode Island. The 48-year-old erstwhile pupil and Portuguese nationalist has been identified arsenic the gunman down a wide shooting that killed 2 students and wounded nine. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

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The stateless man, who is known by the pseudonym John, was surviving successful the basement of Brown’s Barus and Holley engineering building. Police couldn’t place him connected their own, and asked societal media to assistance find a idiosyncratic successful proximity to the existent idiosyncratic of interest. 

Questions stay arsenic to wherefore a stateless idiosyncratic was allowed to instrumentality structure successful the basement of the Ivy League school’s facility. 

There was constricted surveillance successful the gathering wherever the wide shooting took place, and had the slayer been apprehended, it whitethorn person saved the beingness of an MIT prof who authorities said was murdered successful his location by Neves-Valente days later.

Brown University victims Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, alongside MIT prof Nuno Loureiro, who was killed. (Instagram/elinacoutlakis/GoFundMe/Jake Belcher for MIT)

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A custodian astatine the assemblage told the Boston Globe helium saw the alleged gunman astir a twelve times anterior to the attack, hiding successful bathrooms to debar being seen and adjacent reported the antithetic enactment to a field information defender successful November.

Authorities recovered Neves-Valente dormant by termination successful a retention shed successful Salem, New Hampshire connected Thursday night. 

In her connection pursuing the discovery, Paxson condemned "gun violence," targeted "harmful doxxing activity" and noted "no denotation of immoderate concerns pertaining to behaviour oregon immoderate nationalist information interactions" by Neves-Valente portion helium was a pupil astatine Brown for a abbreviated clip much than 20 years ago.

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Interior presumption of Barus and Holley Room 166 connected the field of Brown University successful Providence, R.I. On Saturday, Dec. 13, astir 4p.m., a masked antheral with a weapon entered a reappraisal league successful Barus & Holley Room 166 for ECON 0110: "Principles of Economics," shouted thing indiscernible and opened fire. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Daily Herald)

"In the aftermath of the shooting, we person seen harmful doxxing enactment directed toward respective students, module and staff, and aggregate offices person been committed to providing support," Paxson said. 

"We besides person worked aggressively to combat disinformation successful online media and enactment that has gone arsenic acold arsenic to endanger individuals successful our community," the assemblage president added.

When asked astir whether the deficiency of cameras connected field was a hindering origin successful catching the wide shooter, she said, "I bash not deliberation a deficiency of cameras successful that gathering had thing to bash with what happened there."

Paxson, whose yearly wage surpassed $3 cardinal successful 2023, and the assemblage person been heavy criticized for negligence successful some protecting the field and uncovering Neves-Valente, who went connected to instrumentality different beingness successful Massachusetts aft murdering 2 Ivy League students, authorities said.

Brown University President Christina H. Paxson speaks during a quality league aft a wide shooting prompted a lockdown connected field connected Dec. 13, 2025.  (Getty)

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Sources told Fox News that the assemblage is preparing to look lawsuits resulting from the shooting, and confirmed Monday greeting they person retained erstwhile U.S. lawyer Zachary Cunha to correspond the Ivy League school.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Brown University to spot if the committee was readying connected issuing immoderate connection regarding the shooting, information measures oregon immoderate plans for the aboriginal of Brown, but did not person a response.

Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected X @MizellPreston