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PBS News Hour - Segments

Son of Louisville mayor reflects on past trauma after Brown University shooting

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Five days after a shooting at Brown University left two students dead and nine others injured, authorities have not identified a suspect. For one family, this shooting was a harrowing reminder of another traumatic incident, the attempted assassination of Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg in 2022. His son, Ben Greenberg, is a junior at Brown. Amna Nawaz spoke with both of them. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Five days after a mass shooting at Brown University left two students dead and nine others

0:05.6

injured, authorities have not yet identified a suspect and the shooter remains at large.

0:10.9

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley acknowledged that many in the city remain restless and eager

0:15.4

for an arrest.

0:16.8

Yesterday the FBI released these images of a person of interest seen in the area moments before the attack.

0:22.6

Today, Providence Police released these photos asking for the public's help to identify a man they say was in proximity of the person of interest.

0:31.6

For one family, this shooting was a harrowing reminder of another traumatic incident, the attempted assassination of Louisville

0:38.7

Mayor Craig Greenberg in 2022. The mayor's youngest son, Ben Greenberg, is a junior at Brown University,

0:46.0

and both join me now. Gentlemen, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for joining us.

0:51.3

Thank you. I pleasure to be here. So, Ben, I want to begin with you. It's my understanding.

0:54.8

Your apartment at Brown is across the street from where the shooting unfolded.

1:01.4

Just tell us how and when you realized what was unfolding and what you and your friends did when

1:07.3

you realized that. Yeah, so I live across the street from Barrison Hawley.

1:12.6

In a house, it's a two-unit house, but it's essentially a house.

1:15.6

So I just got back from the gym and I was in my room.

1:19.6

And my friend texts me, he's like, what are all these sirens doing?

1:23.6

He makes a joke about like what's going on, like just not knowing it's

1:28.3

anything serious. And we come, we get a DPS notification from Brown saying there's an active

1:36.2

shooter and all of my friends go to my roommate's room. We barricade ourselves in the room

1:42.9

because we have a back door to the other

1:45.9

unit that doesn't lock. And we didn't know really anything at the time and we're all pretty

1:51.8

stressed if maybe the shooter could have theoretically gone in. So we barricade ourselves in a room

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