Hunt For Brown University Killer Stretches to 6th Day, Spreads To Massachusetts

PROVIDENCE, RI — The hunt for the Brown University mass shooter stretched to its sixth day and spread to Massachusetts.

The North Attleboro, Massachusetts confirmed that investigators on the Brown University case were in his town.

"As you are likely aware, there was a shooting at Brown University over the weekend," North Attleboro Police Chief Richard McQuade said in a media release.

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"This investigation, which is being conducted by the Providence Police Department and the FBI, has taken investigators into numerous communities, including ours," McQuade said.

"I want to emphasize there is no immediate threat to our community," he said. "Despite social media chatter, the suspect is not being sought in the town of North Attleboro."

Providence Police Chief Oscar L. Perez has said investigators are ready to go far afield to pursue leads in the investigation.

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"We're all over the place," Perez said. "If a tip comes in and it needs us to go down to Connecticut, we're going down to Connecticut. If a tip comes in and tells us that we got to go to Boston, then we're going to Boston.

Police release video Monday of a person of interest caught on video casing the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooter killed two and injured at least eight others hours before the Saturday afternoon gun attack, said Providence Police Chief Oscar L. Perez.

Then, on Wednesday, police released images of a second person they say was "in proximity of the (original) person of interest."

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"We have video footage that determines to us and the detectives that can tell that this person was in the vicinity where the subject of interest was that we actually have an interest in," Perez said.

The police department urged anyone with information on either person to call 401-272-3121.

Perez also said police have recovered DNA evidence.

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"There's actual physical evidence, there's DNA evidence, there's a lot of evidence we're collecting to ensure that we can find the answer," said Perez, who called the case "intense."

"It's definitely intense and I believe the most intense investigation going on right now in this nation," he said.

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