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Brown Shooting: What Went Wrong | Providence News
A chilling review of the Brown University shooting reveals it was nearly impossible to prevent, but highlights critical failures in campus response and security. The lone gunman, a Portuguese national with a distant tie to the school, killed two students and wounded nine before fleeing — later found dead in New Hampshire, having also slain an MIT professor. Though campus staff reacted swiftly, key systems like Rave alerts and sirens were delayed, police leadership faltered, and building security ignored prior trespassing warnings. Surveillance footage — over 1,200 cameras — remained locked…
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