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Police are back to initial investigations and sorting “a lot of leads" in Brown University mass shooting, Providence police official says
From CNN's Brian Todd
Law enforcement authorities are back to early stages in the manhunt for the Brown University mass shooter, the commanding officer of the Providence, Rhode Island, Police Department’s Investigative Division said.
“We have a lot of leads,” Major David Lapatin told CNN on Monday.
The people that are now being looked at as part of the investigation are not hard suspects, he said, and initial inquiries into them are “based on tips from the public.” He did not say how many people are now on law enforcement radar.
After officials on Sunday night announced a person of interest was being released, investigators are working very hard to find the shooter, Lapatin told CNN.
“We’re continuing with a plan. We’re hitting the streets. We’re on it,” he said. “We’re collecting evidence now, seeing if it will lead to a possible arrest.”
Lapatin could “not get into” whether more video evidence has been collected beyond a short clip of a person dressed in dark clothes on a sidewalk.
That image is the “clearest picture we have of the individual we believe to be responsible. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t other evidence,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley told CNN on Monday morning.
Still, “We haven’t identified him,” Lapatin said. “We don’t know who he is. How would we know where he is?”
CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.
