FBI releases 6-minute video showing person of interest before Brown University mass shooting

PROVIDENCE, RI. — The FBI on Tuesday afternoon released a new, six-minute-long video that shows the movements of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University over the weekend.

The video first shows the individual around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, around two hours before a gunman opened fire on students in the engineering building on Brown’s campus.

The video tracks the individual’s movements as he walks through a neighborhood near the Ivy League school.

Students Muhammadaziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook were killed in the shooting. Nine other individuals were injured.

The attack triggered hours of chaos across campus and surrounding Providence neighborhoods as hundreds of officers searched for the shooter and urged students and staff to shelter in place.

Police described the man as stocky, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, wearing a knit hat.

In the hours after the tragedy, authorities announced that they would be releasing an initial person of interest who they had taken into custody early Sunday morning after the investigation led law enforcement in a “different direction.”

Since then, investigators have been canvassing local residences and businesses for security camera footage and looking for physical evidence.

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