Brown University's police chief has been placed on leave more than a week after a deadly mass shooting that left two dead and nine injured.
The decision was announced Monday by the Ivy League school's President Christina Paxson, who said it was part of a “routine” review of campus security in light of the attack.
Rodney Chatman, the chief of police at the University of Rhode Island, is on leave, “effective immediately,” Ms. Paxson said.
Police were criticized for their response to the shooting and failure to quickly identify and apprehend a suspect. Earlier Monday, the U.S. Department of Education said it was also reviewing security at the college in response to the shooting.
Six days after the attack, authorities identified the suspect in the Dec. 13 shooting as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese citizen.
Valente, who previously attended Brown University, was found dead in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, on Friday.
Officials said they believe Valente killed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor two days after the Brown University shooting. The motive for both murders has not been disclosed.
In a statement Monday, Ms. Paxson praised the “bravery, dedication and commitment” of the campus officers who responded on the day of the attack.
But she acknowledged the “anxiety, fear and stress” on campus following the shooting and said the university was taking immediate steps to address those issues.
Those steps will include a review of the response to the shooting as well as a review of Brown University's current security policies, both of which will be conducted by the school's top governing body, she said.
Her statement came after the U.S. Department of Education said Monday it would review Brown's response to the shooting.
President Donald Trump criticized the university for its lack of security cameras on campus following the shooting. Ms. Paxson said there are 1,200 security cameras on campus.
Authorities said the suspect entered the building housing Brown's engineering and physics programs and fired at least 44 shots from a handgun at students.
The two killed in the attack have been identified as 19-year-old Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and 18-year-old Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek-American first-year student.
