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Police say a man detained in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University will be released, as investigators continue to review evidence in the case. The shooting left two students dead and nine others wounded, shaking the campus and surrounding community.

Authorities have not announced new arrests and say the investigation remains active. Brown University canceled classes and exams as students and residents mourn the victims and await further updates from law enforcement.

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00:00Shortly, we will be releasing the person of interest who had been detained earlier today and the Attorney General can speak a little bit about the rationale for that, but we want to inform the community that that
00:27individual will shortly be released from Providence Police. We know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community, and we want to reiterate what we said earlier, which remains true, which is ever since the initial call, now a day and a half ago, we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community.
00:55And so the status of safety in our community remains unchanged, and we believe that you remain safe in our community, though we will continue to have an enhanced police presence throughout the city and on the Brown campus.
01:12Our investigation into this horrific act remains ongoing. It has been ongoing, and I know there's been some frustration from members of the community and others about the language that we've been using about the person of interest and such,
01:31and that speaks to directly the fact that this investigation was and continues ongoing, and we will continue to endeavor to not confirm any information that is not yet confirmable.
01:43This is what these investigations look like. I've been around long enough to know that sometimes you head in one direction and then you have to regroup and go in another, and that's exactly what has happened over the last 24 hours or so.
01:56Certainly there was some degree of evidence that pointed to this individual, but that evidence needed to be corroborated and confirmed, and over the last 24 hours leading into just very, very recently, that evidence now points in a different direction.
02:14So what that means is that this person of interest needs to be and should be released.
02:19I think what is really unfortunate that this person's name was leaked to the public. It's hard to put that back in the bottle, okay?
02:30So we're going to proceed very carefully here. There is too much at stake for the victims of this horrific crime and their families to take chances with respect to this investigation.
02:44And I want to make sure that we all understand that this was a very complex investigation, and it still is. So in a sense, we followed on a lead, and we followed on the specific lead, but we're able to examine every single evidence that led us to this individual.
03:01And at that point, that's how investigations work. Investigations will tell us whether something is valid or not, whether something needs to be ruled out. It's not a mistake. It's just how investigations work.
03:12I'm very proud of the detective work that they do detectives that work throughout the night, as the general stated. We're here last night making sure that we lift every rock, that we investigate everything we need to investigate,
03:25because we're not in the business of putting people in jail that don't deserve to be. And so at this point, we'll continue to follow on every lead that comes our way.
03:35Our federal partners are on board. We'll be meeting again tomorrow with them and continue to do the work that we need to do to bring this person who's responsible to justice.
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