skip to contentAdvertisementAuthorities released a short clip of video of the suspect walking away from the scene, but his face wasn't visible.By: Express Web Desk December 16, 2025 01:32 AM IST First published on: Dec 16, 2025 at 01:32 AM IST ShareWhatsapptwitterFacebookThe victims Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national.Authorities have identified the two students who were killed in the mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, United States, on Saturday. They have been named Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year of studies at the Ivy League university.Ella Cook19-year-old Cook was a sophomore at Brown. Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, an Episcopalian church, which Cook attended, remembered her as “an incredible, grounded, faithful, bright light” during the service on Sunday.Cook was vice-president of Brown’s chapter of College Republicans of America, the group said.Official Statement on the loss of Brown University College Republicans Vice President, Ella Cook. pic.twitter.com/IJoQsvyOsI— College Republicans of America (@uscollegegop) December 15, 2025MukhammadAziz UmurzokovThe identity of Umurzokov was confirmed by Uzbekistan’s foreign ministry. The 18-year-old freshman majoring in biochemistry and neuroscience.“He was incredibly kind, funny, and smart. He had big dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon and helping people,” his sister, Samira Umurzokova, said in a tribute on a GoFundMe campaign meant to support his family.The American Uzbekistan Association announced that MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, a student at Brown, was murdered in the attack on Saturday.Since first coming to Uzbekistan 25 years ago as a Peace Corps Volunteer, it has been a gift to engage with this country as an educator. There… pic.twitter.com/LPKxwMDAXE— Jen Brick Murtazashvili (@jmurtazashvili) December 15, 2025He was helping a friend at a review session for an economics final when he was fatally shot, his sister said.As a child, Umurzokov suffered a neurological condition that required surgery, and he later wore a back brace because of scoliosis, said Samira Umurzokova, noting that the family immigrated to the US from Uzbekistan when she, her brother and sister were young.Story continues below this ad“He had so many hardships in his life, and he got into this amazing school and tried so hard to follow through with the promise he made when was 7 years old,” she told the AP by phone Monday.also read Gunshots, then 12 hours of fear at Brown UniversityNine other people were hurt in Saturday’s attack in the engineering building of Brown’s campus in Providence, during the school’s final exam period.A police vehicle is parked at an intersection near crime scene tape at Brown University, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Providence, R.I., following a Saturday shooting at the university (Photo: AP)Manhunt resumes for shooterMeanwhile, the police on Monday renewed their search for the gunman who killed the two students, a day after they released a person of interest and determined the evidence pointed in a different direction.The abrupt announcement marked a setback in the investigation of Saturday’s attack on the Ivy League school’s campus and added to mounting questions, including about the apparent lack of video evidence and whether the focus on the person of interest gave the killer more time to escape justice.Story continues below this adAuthorities said Sunday that one of the reasons they lacked video of the shooter was because Brown’s engineering building doesn’t have many cameras.Most ReadPolice gather outside an entrance to Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)Providence residents and students were relieved early Sunday when officials said they had detained a man at a Rhode Island hotel in connection with the attack and lifted the lockdown.But that relief was short-lived, as Mayor Brett Smiley said hours later that investigators didn’t know whether the gunman was still in the area.Authorities released a short clip of video of the suspect walking away from the scene, but his face wasn’t visible.AdvertisementAdvertisementLoading Taboola...