Hi everyone-
The Providence police held another press conference last night and this time they revealed pretty much nothing about what's going on with the Brown University shooting case, though they tried. They showed cleaned up footage of the man they believe to be the shooting suspect essentially casing the neighborhood.
They asked the public to take a look at the way the man walked, his body type, posture, and asked that people send in tape from their security systems or even from their Teslas. The Rhode Island AG praised the cops again for their work, even though they appear to have zero new leads on this case and the trail is growing cold.
Let's recap: after the shooting on Saturday the cops brought in a person of interest in the case. His name was leaked. His hotel room searched. Guns were found. By early Sunday morning, the shelter in place order was lifted campus wide and students began heading back to their dorms and dwellings. The school canceled the rest of the term and kids started heading back home out of state.
Then the cops released the guy. They said he was the wrong guy. By now it was Sunday night and they basically had to pick up the investigation from scratch. They do not have footage showing the guy's face, just his walking around. On Monday, Mark Halperin said that Ella Cook, one of the two victims, was intentionally targeted. She was an outspoken conservative on a super liberal campus.
Caroline Wren reported that some students had said that the shooter yelled Allahu Akbar before he opened fire. Online sleuths started piecing it together and came up with a hypothesis as to who the killer might be, and then Brown deleted every piece of data about that person from their website.
During the press conference, Brown Pres. Paxson said she didn't know anything about the deleted pages. AG Peter Neronha slammed anyone who would say that the shooter had been motivated to kill based on victims' race or ethnicity. Later Brown released a statement condemning the "harmful doxxing activity" directed toward a person the public believed was of interest.
They begged the public for help then told the public they were wrong to make assumptions and suppositions. Okay. The fact remains that either they have something and they're keeping it from the public or they have nothing and the investigation has been entirely botched.
What do you think?
Libby