Providence Mayor: ‘Hero’ Tipster that Led Officials to Brown Shooting Suspect Should Get Full $50K

FBI won’t say whether homeless tipster will get $50k reward for cracking Brown-MIT shooting case

The FBI is keeping mum about whether it plans to pay out the $50,000 reward it put up for information in the Brown University shooting to a homeless man whose tip led investigators to the killer.

Finding faith in office: Providence mayor leans on his Judaism in hard times

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley stood, somber, next to the city’s police chief on Thursday night as he announced a shocking end to the dayslong manhunt that followed a mass shooting at Brown University, where a gunman killed two students and injured nine more. The suspect had fled to Massachusetts, where he allegedly killed an MIT professor, and then killed himself in a storage unit in New Hampshire. The next morning, on Friday, Smiley sat in his …

There’s little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings (Opinion)

By Emily Greene-Colozzi A group of college students braved the frigid New England weather on Dec. 13, 2025, to attend a late afternoon review session at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Eleven of those students were struck by gunfire when a shooter entered the lecture hall. Two didn’t survive. Shortly after, a petition circulated calling for better security for Brown students, including ID-card entry to campus buildings and improve…

Tipster cracked Brown University shooting case

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Information from a tipster who had a strange encounter with another man on a sidewalk outside Brown University was key to police identifying the suspect they believe killed two students at the school and then two days…

A nightmare on Hope Street, a frantic manhunt, and the tip that broke open the case - The Boston Globe

Providence residents went days without knowing who the gunman behind the Brown shooting was, or whether he was still among them.

Will homeless man who helped FBI find Brown shooter get US$50,000 reward?

Investigators struggled for days to locate the suspect – until they got a tip about a Reddit post by a man living in the building’s basement.