A person of interest in the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been identified, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News on Thursday.
Sources said law enforcement has identified an individual and is conducting a search of the individual.
Two students were killed A gunman opened fire inside a classroom on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday afternoon, injuring nine people, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the school’s Barus & Holley Engineering Building during final exams.
Immediately after the shooting, police said a male suspect had managed to escape the building. In the hours and days that followed, police and the FBI released images and videos of the man they described as a suspect who was walking in the neighborhood hours before the first 911 calls came in about the shooting.
The person in the photo is wearing black clothes and a mask. No shot clearly depicts him.
one Video posted on TuesdayAlthough blurry, it is the clearest photo of the suspect released to date. The image appears to have been digitally enhanced.
John Mulvaney, a 26-year FBI veteran and managing director of CBIZ Forensix Consulting Group, told CBS News Boston that the video appears to show the suspect “surveying the neighborhood.”
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the shooting.
this Two students killed in shooting They were identified as Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek-American freshman.
“They were both bright and deeply loved as members of our campus community, but even more beloved by their friends and family,” Brown University President Christina H. Paxson wrote in a letter to the university community on Tuesday. “Our hearts continue to be with them and we are deeply saddened.”
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