Authorities press for more information from the public amid search for Brown University shooter

As the manhunt for the shooter enters its fifth day, authorities have not yet identified a suspect and continue combing through the 200 credible tips they have received, the police chief said Tuesday.

Complicating the ongoing search for a person of interest in connection with the shooting’s investigation is the fact that many students, faculty and staff have left the campus after the school canceled the remaining week of its fall semester.

Authorities shared images this week of the person of interest, which show a man they say is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and has a stocky build.

The FBI, in coordination with Providence police and Rhode Island state police, released a video timeline Tuesday showing the man wearing a dark winter hat, a two-tone zippered jacket, black pants and a dark medical mask covering most of his face.

The timeline of stitched-up surveillance footage from the neighborhood surrounding the university campus shows the man walking around the area, about a block away from campus, at 2 p.m. ET — two hours before the shooting took place Saturday. There is also video of him walking in front of the building where the shooting happened and of him walking away from campus after the shooting. There is no video showing the person of interest entering the Barus and Holley engineering building, where the shooter opened fire.

The area of the engineering building where the shooting took place has few security cameras because it is an older part of the campus, state Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a news conference Tuesday evening. He added that security cameras from newer areas of the campus captured images of students running away from the shooting.

Brian E. Clark, a spokesperson for Brown University, said in an email Wednesday morning that “Brown has an expansive network of security cameras, with more than 1,200 cameras installed across campus buildings and spaces in both interior and exterior locations.”

“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,” Clark wrote. “We have and will continue to provide investigators with any and all security camera footage they need.”

As the investigation continues, those who remain on campus, as well as residents of the surrounding community in the city of Providence, are coming together to process the tragedy.

Inside St. Stephen’s Church in the heart of Brown University’s campus, a solemn choir accompanied about 200 people as they prayed and paid tribute to the victims of the shooting.

José Flores, a Providence resident at the candlelight vigil, told Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra he was “moved because it’s something we didn’t expect to happen here.”

“We feel very bad because it’s like a shared mourning,” Flores said in Spanish, “we’re all connected in the same heart.”

Chris Kremer, a Brown alumnus, told local TV station WCVB that “it could have been any one of us.”

Two of the nine people who suffered injuries in the shooting have been discharged from the Rhode Island Hospital, six others remain in stable condition and one is in “critical but stable condition,” a hospital spokesperson said Wednesday morning.

Among those wounded was Spencer Yang, a first-year student and a member of Brown University’s volleyball team. “After several days of care in the hospital, Spencer is now safely recovering at home with his family,” the team wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday afternoon.

The post continued: “Even after being shot, Spencer selflessly provided aid to a severely wounded classmate until first responders arrived. That is the kind of person he is. We are beyond proud of him and are wishing him a speedy recovery.”