Overview
- Three Brown students injured in the Dec. 13 attack filed separate negligence lawsuits Monday in Rhode Island Superior Court.
- The suits say Brown ignored reports of the gunman around the Barus and Holley Building and failed to put basic safeguards in place.
- The plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages, alleging conduct so reckless it amounted to criminality in the complaints.
- A Brown spokesperson says the university is reviewing the filings, and a court hearing is scheduled for May 5.
- The December shooting killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine, and police later found the gunman, Claudio Neves Valente, dead in a New Hampshire storage unit after he also killed an MIT professor.