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A cowardly shooter opened fire in a crowded Brown University classroom, leaving two students dead and nine more wounded as a manhunt now drags on with the suspect still at large. Law enforcement has released limited video of a person of interest and the FBI has even offered a reward as investigators scramble to piece together what happened — but the basic reality is simple: two promising lives were stolen and a campus that should feel safe does not.
On Jesse Watters Primetime, former FBI agent Stuart Kaplan — a frequent on-air analyst — tore into the public handling of the investigation, saying the official narrative and the way leads have been hyped or dropped simply do not pass a credibility test. Americans deserve experts who tell the truth plainly, not spin; when a former investigator points out glaring holes, we should listen and demand answers rather than let officials paper over failures.
What should terrify every parent and taxpayer is how easily a killer walked away from a supposedly elite campus, apparently exploiting blind spots in security and surveillance that Brown administrators never bothered to fix. Authorities detained a person of interest, then released him when evidence didn’t support the claim — a fiasco that looks eerily like rushed PR rather than tough police work and reinforces the need for transparency in real time. The hard work of hunting this shooter demands patience and precision, not headlines that make promises investigators can’t keep.
We should also acknowledge the victims and call their names so they aren’t swallowed by bureaucratic silence: Ella Cook, vice president of the Brown College Republicans, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an aspiring neurosurgeon, were brilliant young Americans whose futures were stolen. Their deaths cut to the core of why we insist on strong law and order — to protect students who are trying to build a better life, not to become statistics in a campus crisis.
Meanwhile, troubling questions about messaging from federal authorities are piling up, as premature or unverified claims risk undermining trust just when cooperation from the public is most needed. When senior officials or allies rush to announce arrests or detentions without ironclad evidence, it creates chaos for local investigators and misery for victims’ families who deserve facts, not theater.
Patriots of every stripe must demand accountability from university leaders and law enforcement alike: beef up cameras and access control, make lockdown protocols real and practiced, and stop letting a left-wing culture of optics outrank basic campus safety. This is not a time for performative statements or ideological excuses; it is a time for serious, competent policing and for institutions to stop hiding behind their reputations when students’ lives are on the line.
We mourn Ella and Mukhammad, we stand with the injured and their families, and we will not let their deaths be swept under a rug of incompetence and spin. Hardworking Americans expect government to protect our children, and when it fails we will use every lawful means to demand better until campuses are safe again and justice is served.
