"We want to show everyone how amazing of a person he was," his sister Samira Umurzokova told the Globe in an email.
Umurzokov was one of two fatalities in Saturday's shooting on Brown's campus, where nine others were injured. The shooter was still at large Monday morning.
Samira Umurzokova created an online fundraising for her brother, which has now received more than $200,000 in donations. The funding will support the family with necessary expenses, and any remaining money will be donated to charity in Umurzokov's name, she said.
In May, before moving to Providence to attend Brown, Umurzokov graduated from Midlothian High School in Virginia. He was Uzbek, according to the country's foreign ministry.
In a statement in Uzbek Saturday evening, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed condolences to Umurzokov's family and loved ones. The ministry said the loss of innocent lives as a result of this tragedy is a heavy loss.
"I am unbelievably upset and horrified that such a life was taken. As someone who got to know him very well, I'm absolutely devastated," Ruben Stepanian, a Brown classmate, wrote on Instagram. "Please keep his family in your prayers today. I can't imagine how they must be feeling."