Police released 10 seconds of footage of the suspect, walking briskly down a deserted street
\n PROVIDENCE
\nA manhunt was underway Monday after a mass shooting at elite Brown University left two dead and nine wounded and US authorities said they were releasing a man initially detained as a person of interest.
\nThe shooting took place Saturday in a building where exams were underway on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island. A man with a rifle burst in and opened fire before fleeing.
\nNews that a person was being held indicated a breakthrough, with FBI Director Kash Patel announcing that local police had given federal investigations a lead.
\nBut authorities had to walk this back, saying late Sunday that there was not enough evidence to connect the person to the shooting.
\n\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say there\u2019s no basis to consider him,\u201d Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.
\nA lockdown and shelter-in-place order went into effect immediately after the shooting, as heavily armed officers flooded the area. But the latest news meant renewed fears for the college town and state capital.
\n\u201cWe know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community,\u201d Providence Mayor Brett Smiley was quoted as saying by US media.
\nAll the victims were students. Of the nine wounded, one was in critical condition, seven were in stable condition and one has been discharged, Smiley said.
\nJoseph Oduro, a teaching assistant at Brown, said he was in a campus auditorium when the gunman entered.
\n\u201cI was standing in the front of the auditorium, and he came through the back, so we pretty much directly made eye contact, and then as soon as that happened, I looked at my students and signaled them to come to the front, and then I just ducked,\u201d Oduro told CNN.
\n\u201cHe came in, pointed the gun and then screamed something… then he just started shooting right after that.\u201d
\nPolice released 10 seconds of footage of the suspect, seen from behind, walking briskly down a deserted street after apparently opening fire inside a first-floor classroom.
\n\u201cIt is shocking and so terribly sad. I know the students here, many of whom were sheltering for many, many hours last night,\u201d Smiley said later on CNN. \u201cThey\u2019re all incredibly shaken up.\u201d
\nFinal exams scheduled for Sunday were postponed, university officials said.
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\nThe attack is the latest incident of mass shooting in a country where attempts to restrict access to firearms face political deadlock.
\n\u201cThis should not be normal,\u201d Smiley said on CNN.
\n\u201cThis should not be the case that every community needs to prepare for something like this to happen. And I certainly never thought that it would actually happen in Providence, although we were well prepared for it.\u201d
\nThere have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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