Brown University murder victim’s friend blasts school security preparedness

A former Brown College scholar and buddy of Ella Prepare dinner, who was killed by a lone gunman on the college earlier this month, mentioned the Ivy League faculty’s lack of preparedness and sources to catch the killer got here as no shock.

Brown’s misplaced monetary priorities are the basis explanation for how a assassin was capable of enter and exit the college’s services basically undetected, Alex Shieh advised Fox Information Digital in an unique interview:

“I do not assume it is notably shocking that the previous buildings on campus have by no means been retrofitted with up to date safety methods as a result of these should not the spending priorities, they usually know that individuals will nonetheless wish to come to Brown whatever the services due to the Ivy League title,” Shieh mentioned.

“It is form of complicated to folks that you’ve got a college that prices $100,000 a yr, and you’ve got an $8 billion endowment,” Shieh mentioned. “Why does not the constructing have cameras?”

Break up picture of Brown College victims Ella Prepare dinner and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, subsequent to murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. (Instagram/elinacooutlakis/GoFundMe/Jake Belcher for MIT)

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Shieh isn’t any stranger to what he says is bloated and wasteful spending from Brown. Throughout his time on the faculty, he was writer of the college’s student-run newspaper, the Brown Spectator, and induced a stir when he began asking questions on how a lot directors earn and what they do at work.

Shieh despatched a survey to directors asking them to clarify their duties intimately after being impressed by President Donald Trump’s DOGE, however was met with opposition from school. He famous that directors make hundreds of thousands whereas services and college students’ high quality of life undergo.

Brown took disciplinary motion in opposition to the previous scholar, initially alleging he induced emotional and psychological hurt, invaded privateness, misrepresented the college and violated working guidelines.

Former Brown College scholar Alex Shieh confronted disciplinary fees from the college for attempting to reveal wasteful administrative spending.

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“There are about 4,000 directors in a college with about 11,000 college students,” Shieh mentioned. “And this struck me as unusual, and it struck me very clearly that this progress and the explosion within the variety of school directors has induced the price of tuition to skyrocket throughout the nation, however particularly at a college like Brown College.”

“The courses should not essentially what units us aside [Brown] of different colleges, not the caliber of the services, not the caliber of the dorms, however [what] What actually units Brown aside and makes it definitely worth the award in some folks’s eyes is the truth that Brown is within the Ivy League,” Shieh added.

Brown’s aggressive response to Shieh’s reporting led to a Home Judiciary Committee listening to in June, with Shieh as a witness, to debate problems with free speech and misguided and extreme Ivy League spending.

Inside view of Barus and Holley Room 166. on the campus of Brown College in Windfall, RI. On Saturday, December 13, round 4 p.m., a masked man with a gun entered a overview session in Barus & Holley Room 166 for ECON 0110: “Ideas of Economics,” shouted one thing unintelligible, and opened hearth. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Day by day Herald)

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The college finally dropped all fees in opposition to Shieh, questioning whether or not a number of the trash he hoped to reveal may very well be the explanation the services weren’t geared up with cameras or higher safety.

“They use their cash in very silly methods,” Shieh mentioned. “Like paying the athletic director of a small Ivy League faculty hundreds of thousands of {dollars} a yr and having an extreme variety of directors on employees.”

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Shieh, who like Prepare dinner was a member of the college’s School Republicans, mentioned he was shocked when he heard she had been killed.

“She was simply somebody who was very nice and revered everybody, and nobody actually had an issue together with her on campus, which is why it was so shocking that it particularly occurred to her,” Shieh mentioned.

A homeless man residing on the campus of Brown College was a key witness for investigators to search out the killer. (FBI Boston)

On November 13, Claudio Neves-Valente entered Brown’s campus and took the lives of Prepare dinner and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov earlier than driving 50 miles to Brookline, Massachusetts, and two days later killing MIT nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro, in accordance with authorities.

Neves-Valente averted seize and a several-day manhunt ensued. He was discovered lifeless of a self-inflicted gunshot in a warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday night.

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Regulation enforcement officers and investigators credit score a homeless man who lived on Brown’s campus for offering an account of his interplay with Neves-Valente that finally led to the shooter.

If Brown College had been geared up with preventive know-how and had cameras within the services focused by the shooter, it’s attainable that the shooter would have been apprehended and the MIT professor wouldn’t have been killed.

Preston Mizell is a author at Fox Information. Story ideas might be despatched to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and at X @MizellPreston