Audio transmissions from Saturday's active shooter event at Brown University are circulating around social media. The transmission details first responder and officer responses, but some accounts appear to have clipped and spliced the audio — perhaps to give a certain appearance. One account collected the full audio (which the other accounts apparently pulled from without giving credit), and this audio offers a bit more clarity to the narrative. The X account holder, Dirt_Diver_24_7, pulled the audio from his location, which is Mountain Time, so the time stamped reflect this. However, the communications align with reported accounts of the incident.
As RedState reported, the Brown University shooter accessed the Barus and Holley Engineering building and started firing, taking two victims: 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov. Nine others were injured, mostly Brown students. At Sunday's press conference, Brown University President Christina Paxson said that seven of the injured were in critical but stable condition, and one remains in critical condition.
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Five days later, too much remains a mystery. The shooter is still at large as of this writing, which has raised legitimate questions surrounding the efficacy of the Rhode Island Police Department's initial response and investigation. Here is what portions of the full audio reveal.
On Saturday, December 13, at 4:07 p.m (Eastern)., a Rhode Island Emergency response dispatcher issued the first call about possible shots being fired in the area of the Brown University campus.
From the Dirt_Diver_24_7's posted audio:
1:07:21: 92, receiving a call from 184 Hope, east end of building, caller heard about five shots and noted two individuals running. [indecipherable] time to gather information.
Thirty-seconds later, dispatch informed of more calls about gunshots and people fleeing a building.
1:07:51: Just want to advise those responding units we're getting multiple calls all from sort of the same area, Thayer Street, possibly [indecipherable] all stating they heard shots fired, and [indecipherable] fleed [sic], running in different directions, no real information.
Just over two minutes later, dispatch received information from a victim who had been shot.
1:09:02: 292?
1:09:06: 92
1:09:07: 292, at 167 Thayer. 1-6-7 THAYER, callers not providing much information other than the statement that he was just shot. Man was walking to Thayer and Brook.
Between 1:09 p.m. and 1:12 p.m., the dispatch fielded multiple calls from and about victims who were outside the building, and who confirmed the reports about the active shooter. There was confusion about where these victims were located around the Barus and Holley Engineering building, so units patched in back and forth to confirm where all the victims were stationed.
Around 1:11 p.m., is when officers were supplied with identifying information about the possible suspect from the shooting survivors.
1:11:48: Looking for a male dressed in all black...
1:11:52: Assailant he's wearing a mask. That's all we have at this point.
11:11:52: All Black clothing, with black face mask.
1:12:09: Caucasian male shooter.
An officer then warned, "Be advised [indecipherable] may have run into a building..."
Apparently, the officers who interviewed the witnesses who fled the Barus and Holley Engineering building confirmed that there were some people who had been shot who did not survive. But it is not until 1:15:09 that an officer is heard asking for a green light to enter that building. Dispatch indicated that a shield (detective) was on the way to the scene. The acquired audio does not illuminate what transpired within that minute, because the officer once again asked for confirmation to enter the building, as well as further confirmation that the building they were about to enter was indeed the Barus and Holley Engineering location.
1:16:37: Listen do we have victims in this building were in right now? There's multiple losses in this building.
Dispatch confirmed in the affirmative. Twelve seconds later, the call went out to all units that the situation was indeed an active shooter situation.
1:16:49: Dispatch be advised, there's an active shooter situation, we have multiple victims.
[...]
1:17:05: We are going to unified command situation, make sure [indecipherable] staged in a safe location [indecipherable].
We know what transpired from there, but what remains unclear is whether S.W.A.T. was staged to respond, or were the officers on scene merely given the green light to enter the building? Ten minutes is a long time between the first transmission and active intervention.
The communication and management of the tragedy by Brown University is also under fire. As Ella Cook's friend Phoebe Peus affirmed, it was an independent app used by the students that alerted them to the active shooter before any alert was issued by the university. According to reports, the alarms that are supposed to go off in such an emergency did not. The Brown University emergency website did not issue any warning until 4:22 p.m., almost 20 minutes after the first responder calls about gunshots came flooding in.
Saturday, December 13, 4:22 p.m.
BrownUAlert: 1st, Urgent: There's an active shooter near Barus & Holley Engineering. Lock doors, silence phones and stay stay hidden until further notice. Remember: RUN, if you are in the affected location, evacuate safely if you can; HIDE, if evacuation is not possible, take cover; FIGHT, as a last resort, take action to protect yourself. Stay tuned for further safety information.
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The audio provided by Dirt_Diver_24_7 also includes the take-down of the first "person of interest" who was subsequently released by law enforcement.
As our Deputy Managing Editor Susie Moore wrote about Tuesday's press conference:
The biggest takeaway from the latest press conference, aside from the distinct impression that we're being treated to a modern-day version of the Keystone Cops, is that they've been able to piece together enhanced video (all from exterior cameras) of the person of interest who appears to have been casing the area prior to the shooting and are hoping someone will recognize him. We still don't know how he accessed the building, what weapon he used, whether any of the victims were targeted, what the shooter purportedly yelled during the shooting, etc. But they're working on it.
Let's hope, for the sake of the victims and the community, they're able to figure it out.
Many in Providence and the nation are not at all confident. Hopefully, more video and audio information will bring further illumination and help to get them closer to catching the shooter.
Dirt_Diver_24_7's audio can be found here.
LISTEN:
Mass shooting Brown University providence Rhode Island to include the engineering lab, physics building and other buildings the shooter was caught in the bathroom that is at the end of the audio clip. This is the police response audio if you clip it at least give me credit. pic.twitter.com/oRaOeC8fhO
— Steve (@Dirt_Diver_24_7) December 13, 2025
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