Providence Police released additional footage of a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine others.
We are sharing a video of a person of interest and plan to release additional video as part of the ongoing investigation. If you recognize this individual, please contact our Tip Center online at https://t.co/wMDG5fF8y4 or call 401-272-3121 pic.twitter.com/LuPCx7mAV2
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) December 15, 2025
On the surveillance video which appears to be taken on Waterman Street just east of campus, shows a person wearing dark clothing around 4 p.m. on Saturday walking on a sidewalk.
Police said Monday they would release additional footage as the continue to investigate the shooting. Authorities initially detained a person of interest in the case Sunday morning but announced they were releasing the person by Sunday night.
“Sometimes you head in one direction and then you have to regroup and go in another, and that’s exactly what has happened over the last 24 hours or so,” R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha said at the press conference.
Anyone with information is encouraged to reach out to the federal tip line or call 401-272-3121.
On Monday morning, police tape still blocked off access to a cluster of buildings on campus, and the person who shot and killed two students inside, injuring nine others, was still on the loose.
Students who spoke to the Herald said the news provoked fear in those left on campus. With classes and final cancelled for the semester, many students have already gone home. Last Sunday night, several people around the university heard a loud noise they believed could be gunshots, and through a series of anonymous social media posts and text threads, many students followed a self-imposed shelter-in-place order.
The reports of gunshots turned out to be false, but the incident, along with the release of the person of interest, had several students on edge.
“You don’t really know who the real culprit is,” a freshman Rassul, who asked to only use his first name, said.
Brock Owen, a junior on the football team, said he’d stayed up late listening to the police scanner wondering if something else might happen.
Owen said he wasn’t very close with anyone at the shooting, but at a small school like Brown with about 6,000 undergraduates, he was one or two people removed from the victims. Owen had just left Brown’s Science Library when violence erupted less than a block away Saturday night.
He said he feels frustrated that investigators seem to follow the wrong leads.
“It’s like what the heck,” Owen said. “This guy could have more time to escape.”
“It’s been a lot of ups and downs,” one Brown upperclassman carrying his suitcase, who asked not to be named, said of the last 48 hours. At moments, he said he’d felt safe, and at others, like when he heard a loud noise this morning and thought it was more gunfire, he’s realized he’s still processing what happened.
“We’ll have to see how it goes next semester,” he said, before hustling off to catch his ride to get home.
Police presence on campus was still highly visible, if slightly subdued, on Monday. Instead of having cruisers blocking off streets, they made laps around Brown’s open campus while members of the university’s department of public safety walked around in the freezing temperatures.
Federal authorities could be seen walking in and out of Barus and Holley, the engineering building where the shooting occurred Saturday. Several people wore gloves and booties, carrying equipment inside to the crime scene.
The memorial at the front of the building had grown larger from the day before. Wind had scattered bright yellow flowers that matched the police tape still gracing the perimeter.
A pink card with a dove said, “Stop Guns Now.”
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