Brown University students shaken as relief, anger collide after suspected shooter's death

Brown University students and the Providence assemblage were yet capable to respire a suspiration of relief, arsenic the suspected gunman that killed 2 and injured 9 others connected field was recovered dormant successful a retention portion connected Thursday, Dec. 18.

Investigators identified the gunman arsenic Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, according to the Providence Police Department.

"It felt similar a value lifted disconnected our chest," said Jack DiPrimio, a postgraduate pupil and person of 1 of the victims. "But then, it dawned connected america that it truly wasn’t that satisfying."

Brown University President Christina Paxson said successful a property league Neves-Valente was a postgraduate pupil astatine the assemblage from the autumn of 2000 to the outpouring of 2001. He past took a permission of lack and yet withdrew from the assemblage successful 2003.

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DiPrimio said that portion helium and others were relieved the shooter was dead, helium was besides enraged.

"We wanted to spot him alive, truthful that we could bring him to justice, and truthful that helium could look our assemblage successful the [eyes], could look the household successful the eyes and grapple with what helium did," said DiPrimio. 

Neves-Valente was besides identified arsenic the suspected gunman who killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, successful his Brookline location connected Tuesday, Dec. 16. Loureiro was a world-renowned physicist, prof of atomic subject and engineering and the manager of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. 

Still, Brown University students remained shaken successful the days aft the shooting.

Investigators cod grounds astir the determination wherever Brown University  shooter Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente was recovered dormant successful Salem, N.H., Thursday, December 19, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

"What I thought would hap was that I would consciousness alleviation and that I would consciousness harmless to spell retired connected the streets again. But, alternatively I felt infuriated," said Alp Gures, a inferior astatine Brown University. "I didn’t cognize who to blasted … We past realized that it was a erstwhile Ph.D. pupil … Just the thought of [it] made maine truly angry."

Gures said helium was successful his flat during the shooting, lone a artifact distant from Barus and Holley, the gathering wherever the shooting occurred. He remembers proceeding a multitude of sirens walk his gathering and later, received a telephone from his roommate who had already near field for wintertime break.

His roommate notified him of the shooting and helium said helium didn’t person an authoritative alert until later.

The archetypal exigency alert was sent to students astatine 4:22 p.m. connected Saturday, 17 minutes aft the archetypal 911 telephone was received, according to Brown University's website.

"I’m truthful confused," said Gures. "I thought the [emergency notification system] was trustworthy. Just the information that it took truthful agelong to respond to the exigency and told america to structure successful spot … is truly worrying."

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Meanwhile, DiPrimio was walking backmost to his flat during a survey session, down the thoroughfare from the Barus and Holley building, erstwhile helium received the progressive shooter alert.

He said erstwhile helium began speechmaking SideChat messages, an anonymous posting level for Brown students, that’s erstwhile the panic acceptable in.

He near his belongings and keys to his flat successful the country helium was studying in, but recovered a gathering doorway that was near open, ran into the basement and hid successful a bath stall.

The time aft the shooting, Gures said helium had ne'er seen the field truthful quiet. Officials had a idiosyncratic of involvement successful custody astatine the time, but they were aboriginal released.

"I felt the field had ne'er felt much dormant and soundless adjacent though radical were inactive connected campus," said Gures. "I had conscionable ne'er heard College Hill that quiescent … It was eerie to spot Providence similar that."

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)

DiPrimio recovered retired connected Sunday that his friend, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, was fatally changeable and died successful the hospital. Umurzokov was a freshman and aspiring neurosurgeon. Ella Cook, a sophomore astatine Brown University and vice president of Brown’s College Republicans, was ID’d arsenic the 2nd victim.

"I was truthful aggravated due to the fact that I travel from a nationalist argumentation background, truthful there was similar affectional compartmentalization wherever I was intellectualizing the information that this could astir apt person been preventable successful that astatine the aforesaid clip I was grieving a friend," said DiPrimio. 

"I started to spot the memories of some [Cook] and [Umurzokov] [and] started to spot what they meant to people, go twisted and utilized for governmental gain," reiterated DiPrimio.

He besides shared helium felt similar helium was successful a "long nightmare."

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In the aftermath of the deaths, DiPrimio made a travel to New York City wherever helium near flowers and a enactment for Cook and Umurzokov astatine the basal of the "Summer Maiden" statue astatine Rockefeller Center. He besides posted a video connected Instagram dedicated to Umurzokov.

"I privation the nationalist to cognize the idiosyncratic I knew and the idiosyncratic I privation I was capable to speech to again," said DiPrimio done tears successful the video. "I’m atrocious that I didn’t get to archer you that I loved you and that you impressed maine and gave maine anticipation for the future."

DiPrimio recounted gathering Umurzokov aft a prof embarrassed him astatine an lawsuit earlier successful the semester. At the reception, Umurzokov approached DiPrimio to accidental helium liked his question. After uncovering retired helium was lone a freshman, DiPrimio was instantly impressed with his maturity.

Jack DiPrimio, a existent Brown University postgraduate student, near flowers and a enactment for Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, the students who were killed successful the fatal shooting. (Jack DiPrimio via Instagram)

The 2 exchanged Instagram accounts and deed it off. DiPrimio said helium felt protective implicit him. They were some caller astatine Brown and would often sermon pop-culture, movies and news.

"The haunting happening is that successful October, we had talked astir however brainsick weapon unit was successful America," recalled DiPrimio. "I cognize helium would beryllium truthful livid astir what happened astatine Brown, and helium would privation to spot a alteration travel from this."

He besides mentioned Umurzokov had planned to spell connected a day Saturday night, the time of the shooting.

Gures expressed that helium felt the shooting astatine Brown, successful time, would become, "just immoderate different shooting," and that helium ne'er thought thing similar this would happen.

"It truly becomes our occupation to marque definite we support reminding radical that this has happened successful a assemblage arsenic adjacent arsenic ours and to marque definite that the victims, some the 2 that person died and the galore injured, we conscionable support reminding [people] of them, conscionable to marque definite this doesn't go a statistic," said Gures.

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For DiPrimio, it’s imperative that the representation of the Cook and Umurzokov unrecorded on.

"Remember [Cook] and [Umurzokov] not arsenic victims, but arsenic people," concluded DiPrimio.

"It’s truthful harrowing to maine each azygous clip this happens," said Gures. "You truly get to deliberation this won’t hap to my campus, until it does."