Investigators release additional video of possible Brown gunman as search continues

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities person asked the nationalist for immoderate footage they mightiness person of the gunman who fatally changeable 2 students and wounded 9 others astatine Brown University, adjacent arsenic they released a caller video timeline and a somewhat clearer representation of a imaginable suspect.

Investigators provided nary denotation Tuesday that they were immoderate person to zeroing successful connected his identity. In each the videos made public, the suspect’s look was masked oregon turned away, and authorities person lone been capable to springiness a vague statement of him arsenic being stocky and astir 5 feet, 8 inches (173 centimeters) tall.

Officers person been canvassing astir Providence successful hunt of clues that mightiness assistance them fig retired who was down Saturday’s field shooting.

Surveillance video the FBI posted online earlier it was removed showed a idiosyncratic successful acheronian covering walking on aggregate sidewalks for astir an hr starting soon aft 2 p.m. Saturday. The streets were each wrong a fewer blocks of the Brown University engineering gathering wherever the shooting occurred.

Some clips amusement the idiosyncratic walking successful beforehand of immoderate properties respective times. In one, the idiosyncratic abruptly turns astir and runs successful the different absorption erstwhile idiosyncratic approaches.

Two clips taken minutes aft the shooting amusement the idiosyncratic walking distant from a parking batch and past on a street.

Authorities inquire nationalist for help

Police person received astir 200 tips, and Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence constabulary chief, asked the nationalist connected Tuesday to look astatine their camera systems successful the country to spot if they person footage that mightiness assistance officials place the suspected gunman.

“We’re looking for a infinitesimal that is shorter than idiosyncratic taking a breath,” Perez said.

A deficiency of cameras and wide video of the gunman has continued to frustrate some authorities and the community. While Brown President Christina Paxson confirmed Tuesday that the field has 1,200 cameras, instrumentality enforcement says determination is nary wide video of the shooter from wrong the engineering building.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha defended the probe arsenic going "really well" arsenic helium pleaded for nationalist patience successful locating the suspected killer.

Large questions remain, peculiarly astir the shooter's motive. When pressed astir a transportation to ethnicity, governmental motive oregon culture, Neronha said, “That is simply a unsafe roadworthy to spell down.”

Seeking solace

Brown alumnus Chris Kremer joined astir 200 others astatine a somber religion work connected field for the victims Tuesday. He lives a artifact from the country and often goes to the gathering wherever the shooting happened. Many successful the assemblage are reasoning however easy they could person been among the shot, helium said.

He said it was amended to be the work than to beryllium unsocial being sad, depressed and scrolling done his phone.

“It’s ever bully to beryllium successful a large exalted abstraction erstwhile you’re reasoning benignant of large dense thoughts," Kremer said. “I conjecture radical for thousands of years person recovered that to beryllium thing of a salve, truthful I’m hoping that a small spot of that works for maine tonight.”

Campus security

The onslaught and the shooter’s flight person raised questions astir field security, including a deficiency of cameras, and led to calls for amended locks connected field doors.

Paxson said the assemblage has 2 information systems. One system, activated astatine a clip of emergency, sent retired substance messages, telephone calls and emails that reached 20,000 people. The different strategy features 3 sirens crossed the field and was not activated Saturday, a determination Paxson defended due to the fact that doing truthful would person caused radical to unreserved into buildings, including the 1 wherever the shooting was happening.

"So that is not a strategy we would ever usage successful the lawsuit of an progressive shooter," she said.

Brown's website says the sirens tin beryllium utilized erstwhile determination is an progressive shooter, but Paxson said it “depends connected the circumstances" and the determination of the shooter.

A metropolis connected edge

Providence remained tense connected Tuesday arsenic further constabulary were sent to metropolis schools to reassure disquieted parents that their kids would beryllium safe. Ten authorities troopers were assigned to enactment constabulary sent to beef up information astatine schools, territory Superintendent Javier Montañez said.

Providence nationalist schools canceled after-school activities and tract trips for the week arsenic a precaution.

Locals expressed fearfulness arsenic good arsenic defiance arsenic the probe continued Tuesday.

“Of people it feels scary. But astatine the aforesaid time, I deliberation that if the idiosyncratic truly wanted to scare us, we shouldn’t let him oregon her to win," said Tatjana Stojanovic, a Providence genitor who lives adjacent doorway to the Brown campus.

Others accidental the attraction connected information measures does small to code the existent issue.

“The contented isn’t the doors, it’s the guns,” said Zoe Kass, a elder who fled the engineering gathering arsenic constabulary stormed successful Saturday.

After spending of her beingness successful schools wherever each doorway was locked and schoolhouse shootings continued to persist, Kass said specified information measures lone created “the illusion of safety.”

A fuller representation of the victims emerges

Details person emerged astir the victims, who were successful the first-floor schoolroom successful the school's engineering gathering studying for a final.

Two of the wounded students had been released arsenic of Tuesday, Brown spokesperson Amanda McGregor said. Of the 7 radical that remained hospitalized, Mayor Brett Smiley said 1 remained successful captious condition, 5 were successful captious but unchangeable information and 1 was successful unchangeable condition.

One of the wounded students, 18-year-old freshman Spencer Yang of New York City, told The New York Times and the Brown Daily Herald that determination was a huffy scramble aft the gunman entered the room. Yang said helium coiled up connected the crushed betwixt immoderate seats and was changeable successful the leg.

Jacob Spears, 18, a freshman from Evans, Georgia, was changeable successful the stomach, “but done sheer adrenaline and courage, helium managed to tally outside, wherever helium was aided by others," according to a GoFundMe tract organized for him.

Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore who was 1 of the 2 students killed, was vice president of the Brown College Republicans and was beloved successful her religion successful Birmingham, Alabama.

The different pupil killed was MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Virginia, who was majoring successful biochemistry and neuroscience. His household immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan erstwhile helium was a kid.

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Contributing were Associated Press journalists Jennifer McDermott, Matt O'Brien and Robert F. Bukaty successful Providence; Brian Slodysko successful Washington; Michael Casey successful Boston; Patrick Whittle successful Portland, Maine; John Seewer successful Toledo, Ohio; Kathy McCormack successful Concord, New Hampshire; Heather Hollingsworth successful Mission, Kansas; and Audrey McAvoy successful Honolulu.

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