I think it's fair to say there's no reason to consider him a potential suspect, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha told the media, referring to the person arrested earlier. That's why he's being released.
The search has resumed to find the suspected shooter.
Clearly, we have a murderer at large and therefore we are not going to reveal our plan to find him, said Mr. Neronha.
Police released ten seconds of footage of the suspect, filmed from behind, walking briskly down a deserted street after the shooting.
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire at the elite Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, in a building where exams were taking place.
Two people were killed and nine others injured. Of the nine injured students, eight were seriously hurt but are in stable condition, Brett Smiley, the mayor of Providence, the capital of the small state of Rhode Island, said Saturday evening. With more firearms in circulation than inhabitants, the United States has the highest gun fatality rate of any developed country.
Mass shootings are a recurring scourge that successive governments have so far failed to stem, with many Americans remaining very attached to the right to bear arms, guaranteed by the Constitution.
In 2024, more than 16,000 people, not counting suicides, were killed by firearms, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.
Eleven months of U.S. gun violence in 2025, as of December 1st:
— The Gun Violence Archive (@GunDeaths) December 1, 2025
•13,473 gun deaths•24,394 gun injuries
•380 mass shootings•15 mass murders
•651 children shot•3,504 teenagers shot
•1,044 incidents of defensive gun use•1,125 unintentional shootings
•622…
Recent American history is marked by mass shootings, with no place in daily life seeming to be safe, from the company to the church, from the supermarket to the nightclub, from the public street to public transportation.
The deadliest school shooting in US history took place in April 2007: a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before committing suicide.
