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Brown University has canceled its upcoming basketball games following a deadly shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured as authorities continue to search for a suspect who remains at large.
The university’s athletic department released a statement Tuesday confirming that the upcoming men’s and women’s basketball games scheduled for Sunday have been canceled.
The Brown University men’s basketball team stands during the national anthem before a game against Holy Cross at the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, Rhode Island, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
The women’s team was scheduled to host Monmouth at the Pizzitola Sports Center, which is about half a mile from where the shooting occurred Saturday afternoon. The men’s team was scheduled to travel to USC.
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The Trojans released a statement calling the decision “a mutual agreement.”
“The entire USC community sends its support to Brown University following the tragedy that has affected its students, staff, alumni and the city of Providence,” the statement continued.
A bouquet of flowers rests on snow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, on the campus of Brown University not far from where a shooting occurred, in Providence, Rhode Island. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
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An unknown suspect entered the Barus and Holley engineering building on the Ivy League campus just before 4:30 p.m. ET and opened fire, killing Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.
Cook, 19, was president of the Brown University College Republicans.
Authorities announced early Sunday morning that a person of interest had been taken into custody, but that person was later released due to a lack of evidence, Providence officials said.
The FBI released new photos of a person of interest in the December 13, 2025 mass shooting at Brown University. (F.B.I.)
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Surveillance video of a person of interest has been released. The person is seen in the videos wearing all black and covering their face. The individual is seen walking in what appears to be a residential area.
Investigators have described the person of interest as a male, approx. 5-foot-8 with a powerful build.
