{"id":183071,"date":"2025-12-14T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:59:08","slug":"brown-university-hundreds-of-police-hunt-suspect-in-shooting-after-2-killed-9-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183071\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University: Hundreds of police hunt suspect in shooting after 2 killed, 9 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-terrorism expert explains how police will carry out manhuntpublished at 07:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p>07:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Todd McGhee wears a polo jumper and sits in his office during a Zoom call\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/97d41e4a-6ce7-4268-ba5c-6754e91a19c2.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Todd McGhee said CCTV footage could help law enforcement to trace the shooter&#8217;s &#8220;direction of travel&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a manhunt for the gunman continues, CCTV footage released by police shows the suspect walking out of the building after the attack. Neither his face nor a weapon are visible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Todd McGhee, a counter-terrorism and violent extremism expert, told BBC News that the video gives law enforcement officers &#8220;a direction of travel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you think of a bird\u2019s eye view of a city block you\u2019ll be able to then identify the next set of buildings with CCTV or Ring cameras &#8211; any type of information that law enforcement can pursue and continue on tracking the individual and the direction of their travel away from the shooting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGhee added that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on the scene would be looking to trace the type of firearm used, as well as its owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigators will also be looking for a &#8220;digital footprint&#8221; of social media posts or texts, and whether any vehicle was left behind that could help them to identify a suspect, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CCTV shows a man dressed all in black walking down a street\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e83adcfd-3847-44a4-a976-7ff8ae291a04.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Providence Police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counter-terrorism expert explains how police will carry out manhuntpublished at 07:52 GMT 07:52 GMT Image caption, Todd McGhee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-183071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}