Brown University Shooting Lawsuits: Security Failures Alleged

0:00It's April 28th. This is Global News Today, AI-powered stories from around the world. Students injured in the Brown University shooting have filed lawsuits against the school, claiming security failures let the attack happen. Last week, unnamed plaintiffs sued in Rhode Island Superior Court, saying Brown did not keep up reasonable safety measures, leading to their severe injuries. The shooting went down on December 13th in an academic building during a study session. 48-year-old Claudio Nevez-Belente, Burstin, killed a 19-year-old sophomore and an 18-year-old freshman, and wounded nine others. Before taking his own life days later, in a New Hampshire storage unit, a custodian had tipped off campus security that the gunman was scoping out the building ahead of time, but officials did not follow up. The shooter had a past connection to one victim from school and Portugal back in the 1990s. Brown's president put campus police on leave right after for a security review. Now the university is looking over the lawsuits carefully, but staying quiet on details to

1:02respect privacy. Questions linger about no cameras in that building and how easy it was to get onto campus, as the case moves forward in court.