PROVIDENCE, RI — Bundled against the cold and snow and holding candles, the crowd came together in Lippitt Park to hold a vigil for two students killed and nine others injured in a shooting at Brown University 24 hours earlier.

The vigil was a culmination of a day of mourning on campus and in a city that only had two other homicides this year before Saturday’s shooting.

Holding up a candle and explaining that it was the first night of Hannukah, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said that he hope it might symbolize the “first little flicker for our community to get together and heal.”

Sarah Mack, a rabbi at a neighborhood synagogue, said the shooting left the community with, “a sense of safety shattered.”

“We all know that their biggest worry this week should have been finishing their final

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