The person of interest arrested in the Brown University shooting has been released, and no other suspects have been detained, police said Sunday night.
Cops had taken a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin into custody early Sunday morning, but on Sunday night they released him after failing to find evidence to press charges.
“We have a murderer out there,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha.
An attacker walked into a classroom at Brown on Saturday afternoon and fatally shot two people while wounding nine others, police said. The initial person of interest was detained at a hotel room about 15 miles south nearly 12 hours later.
Investigators said they found multiple weapons when they detained that person, and there were no other suspects throughout Sunday. However, that did not lead to charges.
Cops said the investigation would resume in a different direction but acknowledged no other people were immediately on their radar.
“I’ve been around long enough to know that sometimes you head in one direction and then you have to regroup and go in another and that’s exactly what has happened over the last 24 hours or so.”
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