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Victim of Brown University shooting remembered as a scholar, always willing to help

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Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a scholar who was always willing to help his friends, was one of two students killed in the Brown University shooting on Dec 13.

Two students were killed in the Brown University shooting on Dec 13.

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Rich Griset, Eduardo Medina and Emily Cochrane

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MIDLOTHIAN, Virginia – Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was a stellar scholar who was always willing to help his friends with homework and studying, according to his two sisters and a classmate.

His family received confirmation from the university that he was

killed in the shooting

on Dec 13

during a review session on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island, his two sisters, Ms Rukhsora Umurzokova, 22, and Samara Umurzokova, 15, said on Dec 15.

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