Providence officials provide update on students injured in deadly Brown University attack

PROVIDENCE, RI — On Wednesday, officials provided an update on several of the students injured in Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University.

Of the nine people injured, one person remains in critical condition, Providence city officials said during a press conference on Wednesday.

Five people who had been listed in critical but stable condition are still in the hospital but are making progress in their recovery and are no longer considered to be critically wounded.

Three people who were hospitalized in the shooting are at home with their families, officials said.

Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Uzbekistan, were killed when a man walked inside the Barus and Holley engineering building around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and opened fire.

Police on Wednesday released a map that charts the movements of a person of interest in the shooting, both immediately before and after the incident.

Authorities on Wednesday afternoon released enhanced, clearer photos of a person they say was spotted near the person of interest. The new, clearer photo shows the individual wearing glasses walking down the street.

Police didn’t share any additional details on the second person whom they are looking to speak with.

Authorities on Tuesday released a video timeline and a slightly clearer image of a person of interest in the deadly attack.

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The video, from more than an hour before the attack, shows the suspect walking and running at times in a quiet residential area a few blocks from the engineering building, including near Hope, Benevolent, and Manning streets.

Some clips show the person walking in front of some properties several times. In one, the person abruptly turns around and runs in the other direction when someone approaches.

While there has been no indication that investigators were any closer to zeroing in on his identity, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has called the man their primary person of interest.

Authorities now say the individual may have been scouting the neighborhood as early as 10:30 a.m. on the day of the attack.

Investigators are now asking the public to scour their security cameras for additional video from the area of Waterman Avenue, Power Street, Ives Street, and Hope Street, dating back as far as a week before the shooting.

Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez urged residents to pay attention to the suspect’s movement patterns.

“Focus on the body movements—the way the person moves their arms, their posture, how they carry their weight," Perez said during a Tuesday news conference. “This individual was in that neighborhood around 10:30 in the morning. We also know criminals will case the area weeks or days prior.”

The shooting happened in an older section of the engineering building with fewer security cameras. Neronha acknowledged frustration over the limited video evidence.

“The only video of the presumed, anticipated, suspected—however you want to define it—person, you have it," Neronha said.

In the footage, the person of interest is at times carrying a satchel, something investigators are examining closely.

No weapon has been recovered.

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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.

Brown University President Christina Paxson remembered the two students killed in the shooting, Ella Cook and Mukhammadaziz Umurzokov, as “brilliant and beloved” members of the campus community.

The FBI has announced a $50,000 reward for any information that results in the arrest of the shooter.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121.

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