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The part of the Brown University academic building where the shooter was. open fire Officials said Tuesday that although the school principal’s official residence was older and appeared to be equipped with video surveillance, there were no security cameras due to the age of the building, leading to the deaths of two students.
Officials were asked about the lack of adequate security cameras at the Barus & Holley Engineering and Physics Building, despite Brown $7.2 billion donated At a press conference on Tuesday, they released more photos of the suspects they are looking for.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said the school built an addition above the classroom building about five years ago. The new structure, located at the front, is equipped with cameras, he said.
“So, there’s the back part of the building, which is the old part, and the front part, which is the new part,” Neronha told reporters. “The shooting happened in the older part of the back…I think, the older part of the building, if there are any, there are fewer cameras in that location because it’s an older building.
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The Brown University president’s official home appears to have multiple cameras. Officials said parts of the Burroughs and Hawley Engineering and Physics buildings on Brown University’s campus lack security cameras due to their age, although the school president’s residence is older and appears to be equipped with surveillance technology. (Google Maps)
“So the cameras in this brand new building show chaos as students fled the area of the shooting into a new part of the building,” he added.
The lack of cameras in the building has put the university in the spotlight as authorities continue to try to identify a suspect whose image was captured by cameras outside the Ivy League campus.
Surveillance camera images show blind spots near Brown University’s Barus & Holley Building. (surveillance within surveillance)
providence chief of police Colonel Oscar Perez said that although the university has 1,200 security cameras on campus, there was no clear video of the shooter in the engineering building where the shooting occurred.
The Barus & Holley Building was built in 1965. The seven-story, 220,000-square-foot building houses the College of Engineering and the Department of Physics.
FBI agents, some wearing jackets with “Evidence Response Team” emblazoned on the back, enter the entrance to the Barus & Holley Engineering Building on the Brown University campus on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Gregory Norman-Diamond)
It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms, 29 laboratory classrooms and 3 lecture halls, according to the university’s website.
According to reports, the Elizabeth Hazard Sturges House is the official residence of the school president. It is a Gregorian Revival style house built in 1922 and sold to the university in 1947. brown daily herald.
Images on Google Maps and other websites show what appear to be security cameras installed at the home. It’s unclear how many cameras are installed in the home or whether there are cameras inside.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the university.
Neronha noted that the shooting occurred on the “very edge” of a building on the “very edge” of campus.
A lone bicycle was found abandoned on crime scene tape at Brown University’s Burroughs and Hawley Building. A gunman killed two students and wounded nine others. (Greg Norman-Diamond/Fox News Digital)
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“So, anyone who knows Providence knows that you quickly enter a residential area, which is why the video footage you see…the activity of persons of interest both before and after the shooting was in that neighborhood.”
On its website, University As part of its “Percent for Art” initiative, the company allocates 1% of the construction budget for all new buildings and major renovations to commissioning artwork for the building or site, the statement said.
