The Brown University mass shooting is raising questions about how an Ivy League college with an $8 billion endowment has no security cameras in the area where two students were killed and eight wounded \u2014 or any near where the gunman went.<\/p>\n
The failure to capture the gunman after five days has resulted in New England on edge \u2014 and critics growing louder about the security and investigative failures by leaders of both Brown and the Providence, Rhode Island, Police Department. <\/p>\n
Even President Trump has started to raise questions: \u201cWhy did Brown University have so few Security Cameras? There can be no excuse for that. In the modern age, it just doesn\u2019t get worse!!!\u201d he posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n
Brown University\u2019s Barus & Holley building, the site of Saturday\u2019s deadly mass shooting, has limited surveillance cameras on the side of the building that has yet to be renovated. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Since the shooting on Saturday, Providence cops and the FBI have released numerous grainy captures from doorbell cameras in the area showing the \u201cperson of interest\u201d in the case, and have fielded over 200 \u201cactionable\u201d tips, but so far no concrete identifying information has been released.<\/p>\n
State Attorney General Peter Neronha told reporters Wednesday that authorities have \u201czero\u201d information regarding a potential motive in the killings.<\/p>\n
Authorities described the suspect as a man with a stocky build standing approximately 5 feet, 8 inches tall. In the footage released by authorities he\u2019s seen wearing a black hat, medical mask, dark pants and a two-tone winter jacket.<\/p>\n
Brown University has numerous security cameras around its sprawling 145-acre campus. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Brown University\u2019s Providence campus has around 1,200 security cameras, according to president Christina Paxson, but the Barus & Holley building, which was completed in 1965, only has cameras at the front part of the building, which was renovated around five years ago, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha told reporters Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, there\u2019s the back part of the building, the old part, and the front part, the new part,\u201d Neronha said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe shooting occurs in the old part towards the back \u2026 and that older part of the building, there are fewer, if any, cameras in that location, I imagine, because it\u2019s an older building.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The 220,000 square-foot, seven-story building houses the School of Engineering and the Physics Department. It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms, 29 laboratory classrooms and 3 lecture halls, according to the university\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper Tuesday night that the university has \u201cno wall\u201d and \u201cno gates,\u201d which differentiates it from many other schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe building is on the literal edge of the campus, and the person of interest walked out the door that, as soon as he stepped onto the sidewalk, was no longer on campus,\u201d he said. \u201cThis individual was off campus the minute he stepped out of that door and into a residential neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
The official campus residence of the Brown University president, which predates the Barus & Holley building where the shooting took place by more than 40 years, appears to have several cameras installed. Google Maps<\/p>\n
Brown campus security did not respond to an inquiry by The Post about the apparent gaps in camera coverage, or whether they plan to install additional cameras in the wake of the mass shooting, in which students Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, and Ella Cook, 19, were killed.<\/p>\n