LIVE UPDATES: Brown University person of interest to be released from police custody, officials say

Authorities said late Sunday the person of interest was being released from custody with evidence pointing in a different direction now.

What to Know

• A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others in a classroom at Brown University on Saturday during final exams.
• School officials said they were told that 10 people who were shot were students. An 11th person was injured by fragments from the shooting, but it wasn't immediately clear if that victim was a student.
• A person of interest was taken into custody on Sunday morning, but authorities said around 11 p.m. that the person who was being detained was being released shortly, and is no longer considered a person of interest.

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and that person appears to still be at large as police are releasing a person of interest, who was detained Sunday amid their active investigation.

University President Christina Paxson said she was told that 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting, but it was not clear if that victim was a student, she said.

Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic and stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, backyards and porches late into the night after the shooting erupted in the afternoon.

The suspect was a man in dark clothing who was last seen leaving the engineering building where the attack happened, said Timothy O’Hara, deputy chief of Providence police. Security footage showed the suspect walking away from the building, but his face was not visible. Some witnesses reported that the man, who could be in his 30s, may have been wearing a camouflage mask, O’Hara said.

Authorities said Sunday morning that they had a person of interest in custody, before announcing around 11 p.m. they would soon be releasing that person as evidence is now pointing in a different direction.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.