Video: Masked Brown University suspected shooter recces campus day before attack

The new surveillance video, tweeted by FBI Director Kash Patel, showed the suspected shooter walking around multiple pavements near the Brown University engineering building where the shooting occurred that killed two and wounded nine others.

In Short

• Suspect, in all-black ensemble and face masked, seen walking around for nearly an hour
• Brown University shooting killed 2, including an aspiring doctor and a campus leader
• Manhunt underway to identify and arrest shooter

The US authorities have released a new video showing the suspect in the Brown University shooting that claimed the lives of two and wounded nine others. The video, tweeted by FBI Director Kash Patel, shows the suspect recceing the Ivy League university and also provides a slightly clearer image of the man. Investigators are currently on a manhunt, putting together clues to identify the shooter and arrest him, with the process gaining renewed pace after a 'person of interest' was released by the authorities.

The surveillance video shows the man, dressed in black clothing with his face masked, walking around multiple pavements for nearly an hour starting shortly after 2 pm on Saturday – the day before the shooting. The roads he could be seen recceing are all within a few blocks of the Brown University engineering building where the attacker unleashed 40 rounds of fire from a 9mm handgun when final examinations were underway.

So far, all the videos that the US authorities made public showed the suspect's face either masked or turned away, with him being described as stocky and about 5 feet 8 inches tall.

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