PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — With the Brown University shooter data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-shooting-investigation-suspect-providence-4c4277f1569cbda29d5b96a5eb83f369">still on the loose Tuesday, police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators pushed for new evidence that might help them crack the case.
Police have released five videos of the man suspected in Saturday’s attack in an engineering building classroom, where two students were killed and nine others were wounded. None of the videos showed the man’s face, which was either turned away or masked. But three videos released Monday provided the clearest images yet of the suspect, whom the FBI described as stocky and about 5 feet, 8 inches (173 centimeters) tall.
Authorities on Sunday released a person of interest after determining he wasn’t behind the attack, which data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://www.datawrapper.de/_/Qz3Ac/?v=5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happened in a first-floor classroom where students were cramming for an exam.
AP AUDIO: What to know about the search for the Brown University shooting suspect
AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on updates in the search for the suspect in the deadly Brown University shooting.
Details about the victims emerge
The gunman fired more than 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
One of the wounded students, 18-year-old freshman Spencer Yang of New York City, told data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/brown-shooting-witness-spencer-yang.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Times and the data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/12/live-updates-active-shooter-at-brown-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown Daily Herald that there was a mad scramble after the gunman entered the room. Many students ran toward the front, but Yang said he wound up on the ground between some seats and was shot in the leg. He expected to be discharged within days.
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The data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-shooting-victims-e5b40e867f1a349c5c9b7c4f0e866af8">students who died were MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Virginia, and Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. Umurzokov was an aspiring neurosurgeon and Cook was a student leader of Brown’s campus Republicans.
As of Sunday, one of the nine wounded students had been released from the hospital, one was in critical condition and seven others were in critical but stable condition, university President Christina Paxson said. Their conditions hadn’t worsened as of Monday, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said, adding that he didn’t have further information.
Basic investigating still ongoing
Authorities on Monday asked neighborhood residents and businesses for surveillance video that might help identify the attacker. They have said that one reason they lacked video of the shooter was because Brown’s engineering building doesn’t have many cameras.
Investigators were still performing data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-mass-shooting-cc3e5d5505cf0e3d9e49fdc56c2a1459">basic investigative tasks days after the shooting, leaving some students and locals data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-shooting-security-64e1e19e7a4ce2039912107071035247">frustrated by the police response.
Kristy dosReis, a Providence police spokeswoman, said that at no point did data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://www.datawrapper.de/_/Qz3Ac/?v=5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the investigation stand down even after officials appeared to have a breakthrough in the case when they detained the person of interest they later released.
Students supporting each other
Levi Neuwirth, who said he was a Brown senior who used to have class in the room where the shooting happened, said anxiety is high on campus. But he said students and the rest of the Brown community have been supporting each other and displaying extra kindness.
“Campus is on edge, mourning, grieving, processing, all of the above that folks would expect,” said Neuwirth, of Wallkill, New York. “But I would really highlight that the major sentiment I feel and I know many of my peers feel is a strong sense of community, of love. We have each other’s backs.”
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Whittle reported from Portland, Maine. Contributing were Associated Press reporters Kimberlee Kruesi, Amanda Swinhart, Robert F. Bukaty and Jennifer McDermott in Providence; Michael Casey in Boston; Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas; Kathy McCormack and Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and Alanna Durkin Richer, Mike Balsamo and Eric Tucker in Washington.
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PATRICK WHITTLE
Whittle is an Associated Press reporter based in Portland, Maine. He focuses on the environment and oceans.
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