PROVIDENCE, RI — Three students wounded in the Brown University mass shooting are suing the school, the Providence Journal reported.
The students, all freshman, are identified as J. Does 1,2 and 3 in the complaints filed April 23 in Superior Court, according to the Journal.
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A gunman fired at least 44 shots in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, killing two and wounding eight others the afternoon of Dec. 13. The Providence police and the FBI identified the shooter as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown student and Portuguese national living in Miami.
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"The students allege that Brown’s security failed to heed warnings from custodian Derek Lisi about Neves Valente 'casing' the building in the days and weeks leading up to the shooting that left students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, dead and nine others injured," per the Journal story.
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"'“Despite Lisi's reports and the suspicious nature of Valente's repeated presence and conduct in and around Barus and Holley, Brown University took no known reasonable or meaningful steps to investigate the reported threat, identify Valente, restrict his access to the building, increase monitoring or security presence, or otherwise secure Barus and Holley,' the complaint, by the firm Decof, Mega & Quinn, said," according to the Journal.
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Read the full Journal story here.
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