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Two students were killed and nine were injured when a gunman entered a study session and fired 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun.
All of the students injured in the Brown University mass shooting have been released from the hospital, the university said Monday.
Two students were killed and nine were injured when a gunman entered a study session in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building and fired 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun on Saturday Dec. 13.
Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a first-year student and dual U.S. citizen from Uzbekistan, both died.
In a “healing and recovery effort” announcement Monday, Brown President Christina Paxson said that all injured students had been released from the hospital. Previously, one person who suffered gunshot wounds was listed in critical but stable condition, which improved Thursday, five days after the shooting.
A campus-wide service is being planned for late January, Paxson said, to remember Cook and Umurzokov.
“The outpouring of love and support for their families from the Brown and Providence communities has been deeply moving, and we continue to hold them in our hearts,” Paxson wrote. “As we process our grief for Ella and Mukhammad, we will memorialize them, as well as the experiences of the nine injured students, in a campus-wide service.”
Paxson introduced Brown Ever True, an initiative to increase support for students by expanding mental health services and enhancing school security. Faculty and staff will also receive additional counseling sessions.
“The name of the Brown Ever True initiative was inspired by the ways many of you naturally invoked this phrase as a clarion call in the days after the tragedy,” Paxson wrote to the community. “We have suffered loss, but our strength is the special character of our community. We are Brown.”
Barus & Holley and other engineering and physics buildings will reopen Jan. 20, Paxson said, while several classes have been moved to alternate locations. Portions of the Barus & Holley will be closed during construction to seal and secure classrooms and halls “behind new walls and emergency access doors.”
Brown’s winter session ends Jan. 20, and the spring semester begins Jan. 21.
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