Brown University on Monday placed its head of public safety and emergency management on administrative leave following a mass shooting Dec. 13 that left two people dead and nine others injured.
University President Christina Paxson announced in a letter to the campus community that Rodney Chatman, the vice president for public safety and emergency management, was placed on administrative leave “effective immediately.”
Paxson said Hugh Clements, Providence’s police chief from 2011 to 2023, was named interim vice president for public safety and emergency management and chief of police, “assuming day-to-day leadership of the department.”
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