Brown U. shooter remains at large as authorities release new videos, offer $50K reward

Video evidence has been coming in at a much greater degree, official says.

Law enforcement has yet to apprehend the suspect in the Brown University shooting on Saturday that killed two students and wounded nine others.

Officials on Monday held a press conference stating they are working a multi-agency case and doing everything they can to identify and arrest the suspect.

The FBI also announced a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual responsible for the shooting.

Authorities on Monday also released several new videos of the suspect walking on a neighborhood sidewalk, but they are low quality and none offer a clear view of his face.

“During a news conference Monday afternoon, authorities screened video that showed a masked suspect wearing a dark two-tone jacket about two hours before the attack. They said they’d post the video on social media and implored the public to call their tip line with any information that might lead them to the suspect,” PBS reported.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said video evidence “has been coming in at a much greater degree than it was 12, 24, 36 hours ago,” reported WMUR.

“Why, you ask? Some people were away for the weekend. Some of these places were businesses,” he said. “There are a bunch of teams doing different things – exploiting electronic evidence, exploiting physical evidence, forensic evidence from the crime scene, canvassing the neighborhood. Those are the threads, that when you pull them, will open this case up.”

Meanwhile, some reports note residents of Providence, Rhode Island, where the Ivy League institution is located, are feeling scared and unsure; on campus, students have been seen with suitcases leaving school.

President Donald Trump also weighed in on the ongoing investigation Monday, stating campus leaders are partly to blame for the status of the manhunt.

“You’d really have to ask the school a little bit more about that because this was a school problem,” Trump said when asked on Monday if FBI Director Kash Patel has told him why it’s been difficult for the FBI to identify the suspected shooter, as reported by The Hill.

“They had their own guards. They had their own police. They had their own everything, but you’d have to ask that question really to the school, not to the FBI. We came in after the fact, and the FBI will do a good job, but they came in after the fact,” the president said. 

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