Brown cites building age for lack of video, but president’s older home has cameras

The section of the Brown University academic building where a gunman opened fire and killed two students did not have security cameras because of the structure’s age, even though the school president’s official residence was older and appeared to be equipped with video surveillance, authorities said Tuesday.

Authorities questioned the lack of adequate security cameras in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, despite Brown’s intervention. $7.2 billion donation At a press conference on Tuesday, they released more photos of a wanted man.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said the school added an addition to the academic building about five years ago. He said the new structure at the front is equipped with cameras.

“So there is the back part of the building, the old part, and the front part, the new part,” Neronha told reporters. “The shooting takes place in the old part towards the back… and in the old part of the building, I think there are fewer cameras in that area because it’s an older building.

BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS ELLA COOK: ‘AN INCREDIBLE LIGHT’

“So there are cameras in that brand new building showing that chaos as the students fled from the attack site to the new part of the building,” he added.

While authorities were trying to identify a person whose image was recorded on cameras outside the Ivy League campus, the lack of cameras in the building made the university the center of attention.

Security camera graphic shows blind spot near Barus & Holley building at Brown University. (Supervised Surveillance)

Although the university is equipped with 1,200 security cameras across campus, there is no clear video of the gunman from inside the engineering building where the attack occurred, Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said.

The Barus & Holley building was built in 1965. The seven-story, 220,000 square meter building houses the Faculty of Engineering and the physics department.

WHILE VIOLENCE IS SHARING AT BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE ELITE IVY LEAGUE CAMPUS IS FACED BY MASS SHOOTING

FBI agents, some wearing jackets with “Evidence Response Team” emblazoned on the back, enter the entrance of the Barus & Holley engineering building on the Brown University campus on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Gregory Norman-Diamond)

According to the university’s website, there are 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms, 29 laboratory classes and 3 conference halls.

The Elizabeth Hazard Sturges House, the official residence of the school’s president, is a Gregorian Revival-style house built in 1922 and sold to the university in 1947. Brown Daily Herald.

A view on Google Maps and images on other websites show what security cameras are installed in the home. It was unclear how many cameras were installed in the home or if they were installed inside.

Fox News Digital reached out to the university.

Neronha noted that the attack took place at the “very end” of the building located at the “very edge” of the campus.

A lone bicycle abandoned inside crime scene tape in the Barus & Holley Building at Brown University. The gunman killed two students and injured nine others. (Greg Norman-Diamond/Fox News Digital)

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FOX NEWS APPLICATION

“So, as those of you who know Providence know, you very quickly enter a residential neighborhood, so you have these pre- and post-shooting video footage of interesting person movements in that neighborhood.”

The university notes on its website that all new buildings and major renovations allocate 1% of the construction budget to commission artwork for the building or grounds as part of its “Art Percent” program.