An 18-year-old Brown University student from Uzbekistan, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, was fatally shot on December 13, 2025, when gunfire erupted during an on-campus economics final review in the Barus & Holley engineering building in Providence. The attack occurred in a first-floor classroom as students were preparing for exams; a masked gunman entered and opened fire. Another student, Ella Cook, was also killed and nine people were wounded as classmates ducked for cover and tried to help one another.

Emergency alerts sent the campus into lockdown while police cleared buildings and transported the injured to hospitals. Investigators released surveillance images and clips and offered a reward for information. Authorities later identified a suspected shooter as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a former Brown student, and said they believed the same person was responsible for the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro two days later. The suspected shooter was found dead by suicide in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire after police closed in. Those who knew Umurzokov described him as a student with plans for medicine and a promising future.

If anyone attended that review session or has information about Umurzokov or the attack, please come forward.