Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”Community members formed a line by the American Red Cross trucks—offering warm drinks and blankets— parked near Lippitt Memorial Park following a vigil on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, after a mass shooting at Brown University left 2 students dead and 9 injured the day prior.
Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”Vigil-goers held candles and sang together in Lippitt Memorial Park following a mass shooting at Brown University on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. Two undergraduate students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, were identified as those killed. The memorial event was originally planned as a Christmas tree and menorah lighting.
Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”Vigil-goers protected their candle flames as wind and snow dusted in Lippitt Memorial Park on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. A shelter-in-place order implemented Saturday for the Brown University campus and surrounding area was lifted Sunday morning after a man in connection was taken into custody. Later that evening, the person of interested was released, and the manhunt continued.
Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”Student vigil-goers held candles and huddled amongst themselves as they mourned in Lippitt Memorial Park on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. On Monday night, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Nuno Loureiro, director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was killed in the entryway to his home. Authorities later drew a connection between the two incidents.
Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”Providence mayor Brett P. Smiley (center), alongside Providence City Councilor Sue AnderBois and Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos (L-R), joined a group of vigil-goers as they sang “amazing grace,” mourning in Lippitt Memorial Park on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025.
Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”A group of vigil-goers huddled in a circle at Lippitt Memorial Park on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. The ensuing manhunt in the days following ended with the suspect found dead by suicide in southern New Hampshire.
Award of Excellence, News Picture Story - Ben Pennington / Ohio University, “Brown University Shooting”Providence city councilman John Goncalves, Senior Deputy Majority Leader for Ward 1, joined vigil-goers in mourning at Lippitt Memorial Park. “We are relieved that this chapter has come to a close and that this long and painful saga is over,” said Goncalves. Mayor Smiley remarked that the shooting and its aftermath had been a “traumatic moment” for the city of Providence. “And we’re going to have a long road ahead,” he added.
