Brown shooting manhunt continues as mayor urges people to share tips

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Police connected Monday renewed their hunt for the gunman who killed 2 Brown University students and wounded 9 others a time aft releasing a idiosyncratic of interest. Providence's politician urged radical to taxable tips successful hopes of identifying the shooter.

Authorities announced the man's merchandise precocious Sunday night aft determining that the grounds "points successful a antithetic direction," aft antecedently saying they had detained him astatine a edifice successful transportation with the onslaught and lifted a lockdown connected campus.

The man's merchandise near instrumentality enforcement without immoderate known suspect, with officials pledging to redouble their efforts to pinpoint the killer's identity.

"We person a murderer retired there," Attorney General Peter Neronha said Sunday night.

Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar L. Perez Jr. said, "We followed connected a lead. And we followed connected a circumstantial pb ... That's however investigations work."

"It's not a mistake. It's conscionable however investigations work," helium said.

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.

On Monday, helium urged people to taxable immoderate information, including video oregon photograph evidence, that could assistance authorities pinpoint the gunman.

On Sunday morning, officials detained a idiosyncratic of involvement astatine a Hampton Inn successful Coventry, Rhode Island, astir 20 miles from Providence. Sources told CBS News that the idiosyncratic was a 24-year-old man, 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."

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 the Associated Press.

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. Investigators said it wasn't wide whether the fishy is simply a student.

A shelter-in-place for Brown University was lifted connected Sunday morning.

The shooting victims were identified arsenic Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek American student.

Smiley told reporters connected Sunday that 7 of those hospitalized stay successful unchangeable information and 1 is successful captious condition. Smiley confirmed that helium had spoken to 4 of the victims.

"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 remaining classes and exams for the semester were canceled.

Pat Milton and The Associated Press contributed to this report.