Police Ask For Help Identifying A Second Person In Brown University Shooting Investigation

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, are asking the public to help them identify and speak to another person who they say “was in proximity of the person of interest” in the Brown University shooting investigation.

The Providence Police Department released three grainy photos that show a person in a coat and hoodie walking through a yard on what appears to be a residential street.

“Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in these photos who was in proximity of the person of interest. Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121,” Providence Police said.

Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in these photos who was in proximity of the person of interest.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121. pic.twitter.com/DJ26rruuc9

— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) December 17, 2025

Authorities investigating the attack that left two students dead and nine other wounded on Saturday have been criticized for their lack of progress in identifying and locating a suspect. On Monday, police released “enhanced” footage of a person of interest, which shows a person wearing a hat and mask walking down the street in Providence’s East Side before the shooting took place.

Students at Brown, and even President Donald Trump, have asked why there are so few security cameras on campus.

“There can be no excuse for that,” Trump said. “In the modern age, it just doesn’t get worse!!!”

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Asked about the lack of footage of the person of interest, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that “unfortunately” due to the age of the building where the gunman opened fire, “we just don’t have additional video footage.”

“So, there’s the back part of the building, the old part, and the front part, the new part,” Neronha said. “The shooting occurs in the old part towards the back … and that older part of the building, there are fewer, if any, cameras in that location, I imagine, because it’s an older building.

The attacker shot and killed 19-year-old University College Republicans Vice President Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov while they were studying in a first-floor classroom in the Barus & Holley building.

Neither Neronha nor school officials have explained why the older building could not have been equipped with security cameras. Fox News reported that the university president’s residence is even older than the Barus & Holley building, but appears to have multiple security cameras.

The university said its cameras focus on “high-traffic areas, such as streets, sidewalks and campus walkways with significant foot traffic; and in academic and administrative buildings with an emphasis on entry and exit points. Brown’s security cameras do not extend to every hallway, classroom, laboratory and office across the 250+ buildings on campus.”

“For security reasons, it is not prudent to share where cameras are and are not relative to individual buildings and locations,” Brown University added.