Investigators release video timeline of the Brown campus shooting suspect’s movements

PROVIDENCE R I AP Functionaries on Tuesday distributed a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting though investigators provided no indication that they were any closer to zeroing in on his identity Investigators have been canvassing Providence homes yards and dumpsters in search of clues that might help them figure out who was behind Saturday s campus shooting which killed two students and wounded nine others In all of the videos made residents the suspect s face was masked or turned away and administration have only been able to give a vague description of him as being stocky and about feet inches centimeters tall Surveillance video the FBI posted online before it was removed manifested a person in dark clothing walking along multiple sidewalks for about an hour starting shortly after p m Saturday The streets were all within a meager blocks of the Brown University engineering building where the shooting occurred Specific clips show a person of interest walking in front of a few properties multiple times In one the person abruptly turns around and runs in the other direction when someone else approaches Two clips taken minutes after the p m shooting show the person walking away from a parking lot and then along a street Police have received about tips and Perez continued to ask the society on Tuesday to look at their camera systems in the area to see if they have any footage that might help authorities identify the suspected gunman We re looking for a moment that is shorter than someone taking a breath Perez declared A lack of cameras and clear video of the person involved has continued to frustrate both personnel and the area While Brown President Christina Paxson established Tuesday that the campus has cameras law enforcement says there is no clear video of the gunman from inside the engineering building where the shooting took place Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha defended the review as going really well as he pleaded for general patience in locating the suspected killer Large questions remain particularly about the shooter s motive When pressed about a connection to ethnicity political motive or civilization Neronha noted That is a dangerous road to go down The attack and the shooter s escape have raised questions about campus safeguard including a lack of cameras and led to calls for better locks on campus doors Paxson stated the university has two shield systems One system activated at a time of exigency sent out text messages phone calls and emails that reached people The other system features three sirens across the campus and was not activated Saturday a decision Paxson defended because doing so would have caused people to rush into buildings including the one where the shooting was happening So that is not a system we would ever use in the situation of an functioning shooter she announced Brown s website says the sirens can be used when there is an functioning shooter but Paxson reported it depends on the circumstances and the location of the ongoing shooter A city on edge Providence remained tense on Tuesday as additional police were sent to city schools to reassure worried parents that their kids would be safe Ten state troopers were assigned to encouragement the local police sent to beef up defense at schools district Superintendent Javier Monta ez disclosed Alex Torres-Perez senior director of communications and external affairs for the Providence Citizens School District disclosed all after-school programs and field trips for the week were canceled as a precaution Locals expressed fear as well as defiance Of program it feels scary But at the same time I think that if the person really demanded to scare us we shouldn t allow him or her to win disclosed Tatjana Stojanovic a Providence parent who lives next door to the Brown campus Others say the attention on assurance measures does little to address the real issue The issue isn t the doors it s the guns mentioned Zoe Kass a senior who fled the engineering building as police stormed in Saturday And all of this like Oh the doors need to be locked I get it parents are scared But any of us could have opened the door for the guy if the doors had been locked After spending of her life in schools where every door was locked and school shootings continued to persist Kass stated such protection measures only created the illusion of safety A fuller picture of the casualties emerges Details have emerged about the casualties who were in the first-floor classroom in the school s engineering building studying for a final Two of the wounded students had been disclosed as of Tuesday Brown spokesperson Amanda McGregor declared Of the seven people that remained hospitalized Mayor Brett Smiley commented one remained in critical condition five were in critical but stable condition and one was in stable condition One of the wounded students -year-old freshman Spencer Yang of New York City recounted the New York Times and the Brown Daily Herald that there was a mad scramble after the gunman entered the room Yang revealed he wound up on the ground between specific seats and was shot in the leg Jacob Spears a freshman from Evans Georgia was shot in the stomach but through sheer adrenaline and courage he managed to run outside where he was aided by others according to a GoFundMe site organized for him Ella Cook a -year-old sophomore who was one of the two students killed was vice president of the Brown College Republicans and was beloved in her church in Birmingham Alabama In announcing her death Sunday the Rev R Craig Smalley described her as an incredible grounded faithful bright light who encouraged and lifted up those around her The other trainee killed was MukhammadAziz Umurzokov an -year-old freshman from Brandermill Virginia who was majoring in biochemistry and neuroscience His family immigrated to the U S from Uzbekistan when he was a kid As a child Umurzokov had a neurological condition that required surgery his sister Samira Umurzokova explained The Associated Press by phone He knew from an early age that he required to be a neurosurgeon to help others like him He had so various hardships in his life and he got into this amazing school and tried so hard to follow through with the promise he made when was years old she mentioned Contributing were Associated Press journalists Jennifer McDermott and Matt O Brien in Providence Brian Slodysko in Washington Michael Casey in Boston Patrick Whittle in Portland Maine John Seewer in Toledo Ohio Kathy McCormack in Concord New Hampshire and Heather Hollingsworth in Mission Kansas Source