Flowers and candles surround photos of Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Va., and Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., in front of a Brown University gate in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Leah Willingham/AP)
Brown University and the communities surrounding it are trying to grapple with a shooting that took the lives of two students and injured nine others. Many are left scared, vulnerable, and unsure of what's next.
