Police are renewing their search for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others over the weekend, after officials said a previously detained “person of interest” was released and is no longer considered connected to the case, per The Associated Press.
Investigators went door-to-door Monday looking for home and business surveillance footage that could help track the suspect, while officials said there were no credible ongoing threats to the community.
Providence police on Monday also released additional video that they say shows a “person of interest” walking on Waterman Street shortly after the shooting, though no face can be seen. The department urged anyone who recognizes the individual, or who has relevant video or photo evidence, to contact the police, according to USA Today.
The shooting unfolded Saturday afternoon during final exams at Brown’s Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, prompting shelter-in-place orders and a large law enforcement response.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said the university canceled remaining classes and exams for the fall semester, and the campus community is receiving support resources as the investigation continues, per The New York Times.
As of Monday, the Brown Daily Herald reported that multiple victims remained hospitalized, including several in critical condition, with at least one patient discharged.
About the victims
ABC News reported that the two killed were identified as Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook.
Cook, 19, from Birmingham, Alabama, was remembered by her church there as “an incredible, grounded, faithful, bright light.”
“Not only here, growing up here at the Advent and myriad ways in which she served faithfully and the ways she encouraged and lift up those around her, but at Brown University, she was an incredible light in that particular place as well,” the priest at Cathedral Church of the Advent said during a Sunday service, per NBC News.
Umurzokov was from Uzbekistan and “had a bright future” ahead of him, his aunt Karina Gabit said. She told NBC News he wanted to be a neurosurgeon after he underwent brain surgery when he was 10.