Authorities renew search for the Brown University shooter after releasing a person of interest

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police renewed their hunt Monday for the gunman who killed 2 Brown University students and wounded 9 others, a time aft they released a idiosyncratic of involvement aft determining the grounds pointed "in a antithetic direction.”

Authorities announced the man's merchandise astatine quality league precocious Sunday, marking a setback successful the probe into Saturday's onslaught connected the Ivy League school's campus.

It unraveled advancement authorities thought they had made astatine the commencement of the time erstwhile they announced they had detained him astatine a Rhode Island edifice successful transportation with the onslaught and lifted a field lockdown.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said helium understands that the assemblage is anxious, but that determination person been nary credible threats of further unit since the shooting.

No existent fishy successful deadly shooting

The merchandise of the idiosyncratic of involvement near instrumentality enforcement without immoderate known suspect, with officials pledging to redouble their efforts by canvassing for video surveillance that could assistance pinpoint the killer’s identity.

“We person a murderer retired there,” said Attorney General Peter Neronha.

On Sunday morning, officials took into custody a idiosyncratic of involvement astatine a Hampton Inn successful Coventry, Rhode Island, astir 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Providence. Two radical acquainted with the substance identified that idiosyncratic arsenic a 24-year-old antheral from Wisconsin, though authorities ne'er released his name.

“I’ve been astir agelong capable to cognize that sometimes you caput successful 1 absorption and past you person to regroup and spell successful another, and that’s precisely what has happened implicit the past 24 hours oregon so,” Neronha said.

He said determination was immoderate grounds that pointed to the antheral authorities detained, but “that grounds needed to beryllium corroborated and confirmed. And implicit the past 24 hours starring into conscionable very, precise recently, that grounds present points successful a antithetic direction.”

Authorities judge they are looking for a idiosyncratic shown successful a small, abbreviated clip of video footage walking away, the politician said. The person's backmost is to the camera.

“Right now, we don't person immoderate grounds to suggest that it was much than that individual,” Smiley said Monday connected ABC's “Good Morning America.”

Despite an enhanced constabulary beingness astatine Brown, officials are not recommending different shelter-in-place bid similar the 1 that followed the Saturday day shooting, erstwhile hundreds of officers searched for the attacker and urged students and unit to stay indoors.

Shooting happened astatine a engaged clip connected campus

The shooting occurred arsenic last exams were underway.

The gunman opened occurrence wrong a schoolroom successful the engineering building, getting disconnected much than 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun, a instrumentality enforcement authoritative told AP. Two handguns were recovered erstwhile the idiosyncratic of involvement was taken into custody and authorities besides recovered 2 loaded 30-round magazines, said the official, who was not authorized to sermon the probe publically and spoke to AP connected the information of anonymity.

Investigators were not instantly definite however the shooter got wrong the first-floor schoolroom successful a seven-story analyzable that houses the School of Engineering and physics department.

The onslaught acceptable disconnected hours of chaos connected field and successful the surrounding neighborhoods, arsenic hundreds of officers searched for the shooter. One video showed students successful a room shaking and wincing arsenic they heard large bangs conscionable earlier constabulary entered the country to wide the building.

During the lockdown, which wasn't lifted until Sunday, aft the idiosyncratic of involvement was taken into custody, galore students remained barricaded successful rooms portion others hid down furnishings and bookshelves arsenic constabulary searched for the shooter.

One of the 9 wounded students has been released from the hospital, Paxson said Sunday. Seven others were successful captious but unchangeable condition, and 1 was successful captious condition.

On Sunday evening, metropolis leaders, residents and others gathered astatine a parkland to grant the victims. The lawsuit primitively was scheduled arsenic a Christmas histrion and Hanukkah menorah lighting.

Smiley said helium visited immoderate wounded students and was inspired by their courage, anticipation and gratitude. “The resilience that these survivors showed and shared with me, is frankly beauteous overwhelming,” helium said.

Brown, the seventh-oldest higher acquisition instauration successful the U.S., is 1 of the nation’s astir prestigious colleges, with astir 7,300 undergraduates and much than 3,000 postgraduate students. The schoolhouse canceled each remaining classes and exams for the semester.

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Contributing were Associated Press journalists Holly Ramer successful Concord, New Hampshire; Jennifer McDermott successful Providence; Christopher Weber successful Los Angeles; and Alanna Durkin Richer, Mike Balsamo and Eric Tucker successful Washington

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