"Eleven people were shot, and two died. The attacker left the hall and is presently at large. Rhode Island police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have not identified a suspect. "Obviously we have a murderer out there," Peter F. Neronha, attorney general of Rhode Island, said Sunday, conceding that law enforcement has "no way of knowing" whether the shooter is still in town, or is even in the state."
"The Providence police described for media what authorities had gathered immediately after the shooting, in terms of concrete information about the shooter. "All we have," explained Timothy O'Hara of the Providence police department, at a press conference Saturday night, "is a suspect that is a male, dressed in black." Authorities said that a dearth of surveillance footage has made it hard to determine even how the attacker entered the building, let alone to develop a profile of the suspect."
Saturday afternoon an armed man entered a Brown University lecture hall in Providence and fired an assault weapon at about 60 students assembled there. Eleven people were shot and two died. The attacker left the hall and remains at large; Rhode Island police and the FBI had not identified a suspect. Authorities initially described only a male dressed in black and said lack of surveillance footage hindered reconstruction of the entry and profiling. Overnight police developed a person of interest and used cell-phone information to locate and take that person into custody at a Coventry hotel around 3:45 a.m. Officials later praised interagency collaboration.
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