Brown University Student Recounts Horror Of Being Just 100 Feet Away From Tragic Shooting

A student at Brown University on Monday recounted the moments he heard gunshots and had to immediately evacuate the building during the tragic shooting that took two lives.

Tristan Keyser-Parker told “CNN News Central” that he was attending a principles of economics review session on Saturday when he heard a “commotion” coming from a room approximately 100 feet away from his location. He then got a phone call from a friend who told him to get out of the engineering building.

“So, from my perspective, what happened was I heard some kind of commotion, and then I heardsomeone yelling that there was an intruder, and we had to get out. I got a phone callabout 20 seconds after that from a friend who was like, get out of the engineering building.He said that he heard what he thought were maybe shots while he was in the lobby.It had run upstairs,” Keyser-Parker said. 

“So,just tried to organize all of everyone, especially the underclassmen, and me and the othercaptains of the car team. That was a lot of people in there.Just tried to get everyone calmly, but quickly, out the back entrance of the building and out onto the street,” Keyser-Parker continued. 

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The shooting killed Ella Cook, a sophomore student and vice president of the Brown College Republicans, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national. A