Providence police release bodycam, calls from Brown shooting response

The Providence Police Department on Monday released body camera footage showing officers’ response to the Dec. 13 mass shooting at Brown University, along with audio recordings of emergency calls and radio traffic related to the incident.

Police said portions of the material were redacted following public records requests to protect the privacy and dignity of victims and witnesses, to remove graphic or highly sensitive content, and to comply with exemptions under the Access to Public Records Act.

Audio recordings included in the statement show that Brown University Police began contacting Providence emergency services shortly after 4 p.m., after initial reports of the shooting emerged.

At approximately 4:11 p.m., a caller said officers received a suspicious description of a person wearing all black and a ski mask, with an unknown direction of travel.

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Body camera footage later shows the officer in charge formally recommending dispatch at 4:16 p.m.: “Watch out, this is an active shooter situation.”

Police then conducted a methodical, floor-by-floor search of the Barus & Holley building immediately following the attack and instructed response units to search for the suspect and other victims.

Two students, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, and Ella Cook, 19, were shot and killed by Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente during an economics exam review session in the building’s Tanner Auditorium, also known as Room 166, according to a newly released incident report from Providence police.

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Police are searching floor by floor after the shooting at Brown University on December 13, 2025. (Provincial Police Department)

The other nine victims were transported to Rhode Island Hospital with gunshot wounds.

The report notes that the auditorium had stairs leading up from both sides, and entrances were from the top and bottom of the room. Umurzokov was found dead near the upper entrance door, and Cook was found dead on the floor between the corridors.

As the investigation into the shooting progressed, detectives later showed still images of Neves-Valente taken from surveillance video of several shooting victims.

One victim, who told detectives he got a good look at the shooter, reacted violently when he saw the photo, freezing, physically pushing back and becoming visibly emotional.

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts released this photo showing the man identified in the deadly shootings at both Brown University in Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. (Ministry of Justice)

Police noted that the woman began to burst into tears and tremble before confirming that the attacker was shown in the video.

According to the incident report, the other two victims were shown separate images of the suspect and the attacker was determined to be Neves-Valente.

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Investigators said Neves-Valente is a former Brown University student who attended the Ivy League school as part of a doctoral program in physics from 2000 to 2001 and formally withdrew in the fall of 2003.

He was found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, in December; where FBI SWAT personnel found him with an apparent gunshot wound as officers attempted to locate and arrest him.