Brown Shooter May Have Scouted Area Before Attack

Investigators believe that the person who killed two Brown University students this past Saturday may have cased neighborhoods near the campus hours before the shooting, as police continue their search more than three days after the attack.

The Providence Police Department released enhanced security camera footage Tuesday showing a man walking through residential areas near the university earlier in the day of the shooting, which occurred around 4 p.m. in an engineering building on campus.

The New York Times reported that the images show the individual circulating near campus as early as 10:30 a.m., several hours before the attack, raising the possibility that he was surveying the area in advance.

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