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Brown University has canceled its upcoming basketball games following a deadly shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured, as authorities continue to search for a suspect who remains at large.
The university’s athletics department issued a statement Tuesday confirming that the upcoming men’s and women’s basketball games scheduled for Sunday have been canceled.
The Brown University men’s basketball team stands during the national anthem before a game against Holy Cross at the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, Rhode Island, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
The women’s team was scheduled to host Monmouth at the Pizzitola Sports Center, which is about a half-mile from where the shooting took place Saturday afternoon. The men’s team was scheduled to travel to USC.
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The Trojans issued a statement calling the decision “a mutual agreement.”
“The entire USC community sends its support to Brown University following the tragedy that has affected its students, staff, alumni, and the city of Providence,” the statement continued.
A bouquet of flowers rests in the snow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, on the campus of Brown University, not far from where the shooting took place, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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An unknown suspect entered the Barus and Holley Engineering Building on the Ivy League campus just before 4:30 p.m. ET and opened fire, killing Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.
Cook, 19, was the president of the Brown University College Republicans.
Authorities early Sunday announced that a person of interest had been detained, but that individual was later released due to lack of evidence, Providence officials said.
The FBI released new images of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on December 13, 2025. (FBI)
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Surveillance video of a person of interest has been released. In the videos you can see the individual dressed all in black and covering his face. The individual is seen walking on foot in what appears to be a residential area.
Investigators have described the person of interest as a man, approximately 5 feet 8 inches and of stocky build.
