Providence police admit Brown University mass shooter could be anywhere as manhunt drags into 5th day
Rhode Island authorities admitted on Wednesday that the Brown University gunman “could be anywhere” after five days of searching for the killer – but insisted they aren’t discouraged about the slow pace of their investigation.Officials provided what little updates they have during their latest press briefing, during which Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha got defensive at times and the local police chief offered up contradictory information about their probe.“No one’s discouraged,” said Neronha, pledging that an “enormous amount of energy” is being devoted to the case, and vowing that the still-at-large suspect accused of killing two students “will be caught.”Providence Police Chief Col.Oscar Perez called the ongoing search for the suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting “the most intense investigation going on in this nation” that will require the public’s assistance as well as “good old-fashioned police work” to crack.“We are using every resource we have to find this suspect and bring him to justice,” said FBI special agent in charge Ted Docks.
“Whether the subject has left the state or even left the country,” he assured.Reporters peppered Perez with questions about evidence uncovered during the investigation, the chief initially saying they’ve “found no items of interest so far.”But Perez later said after conducting extensive searches both inside and outside the academic building where the shooting took place “we have both seized and found physical evidence.”A department spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email from The Post seeking clarification.Neronha grew combative with a reporter who was pressing him about why some security footage collected from Brown was not made public.“Footage of students running from the scene doesn’t help advance furthering this investigation.We have video footage of that.
That doesn’t help us identify this individual.”Five days since the shooting and the o...