A quiet study group. Then screams, gunfire, bodies on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within minutes, Brown University became the center of a frantic manhunt, a campus locked in fear, and a nation asking how this keeps happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were solving equations and planning futures when the shooter stepped into Barus & Holley and shattered everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two lives were cut short, nine more forever altered, as students dove behind desks and texted desperate goodbyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Outside, sirens converged on College Hill while an entire campus waited for a knock on the door, a name on a list, a call from the hospital that never came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, Providence lives in the long, raw hours after the gunfire. A grainy surveillance clip shows a dark figure walking toward the water, face hidden, identity unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police canvass streets, hospitals lock down, and families gather at reunification centers clinging to fragments of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leaders offer prayers; investigators collect shell casings and security footage. In dorm rooms and dining halls, one question hangs in the air like smoke:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
how do you ever feel safe again, when violence walks straight through an unlocked door?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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