Law enforcement officers are in Salem, New Hampshire, where the suspected shooter’s abandoned vehicle was located near a storage facility, sources tell Fox News.
Fox News' Brooke Taylor contributed to this reporting.
Providence police had responded to only two homicides in all of 2025 prior to the Brown University shooting on Dec. 13.
The rarity of homicide investigations in the city provides context for the scale and complexity of the case now facing law enforcement.
Fox News' Brooke Taylor contributed to this reporting.
The manhunt for the Brown University shooting suspect may have crossed state lines into Salem, New Hampshire, according to Boston 25, citing its own law enforcement sources.
Fox News Digital was not immediately able to confirm.
{{#rendered}}Providence police have located and interviewed the man seen on surveillance video near the unidentified suspect in the Brown University shooting, and investigators say he is not believed to be connected to the attack, according to reporting from WPRI.
Law enforcement sources told WPRI the man was captured on camera “in proximity” to the suspected gunman roughly two hours before the shooting.
According to WPRI's sources, the man told police he approached the suspect outside Brown University and questioned what he was doing there, which prompted him to flee.
Police do not believe the man played any role in the shooting.
After authorities publicly asked to speak with him, the man reportedly contacted police and was interviewed. His name has not been released.
All patients injured in the Dec. 13 mass shooting at Brown University are now either in stable condition or have been discharged, according to an update from Rhode Island Hospital.
As of 2:45 p.m. on December 18, Rhode Island Hospital confirmed it treated nine people with gunshot wounds related to the incident and six patients are in stable condition.Three patients have been discharged.
Hospital officials also said that one patient previously listed in critical condition has now stabilized.
Rhode Island Hospital said it continues to work closely with Brown University and is providing ongoing support to affected families.
Providence Police have identified a suspect in the Brown University shooting and have a warrant, according to Fox News sources.
Police are also investigating a possible link between the Brown shooting and the MIT murder.
Authorities have not yet released a name of the suspect and he is still at-large. Sources tell Fox News the suspect is in his 40s.
Fox News' Brooke Taylor contributed to this reporting.
{{#rendered}}The Brown University gunman who remains at large after killing two students and wounding nine more is likely “extremely angry” and a “loner” who is afraid of getting caught, according to criminal profiler John Kelly.
Kelly, who is also the president of STALK Inc., told Fox News Digital on Thursday why he believes the gunman canvassed the area before the shooting.
“He took great pains to scope out the area and secure an escape route. Why? Because he’s scared of getting caught,” Kelly said. “So it looks like a cause he’s not willing to die for, but a cause he’s extremely angry over.”
The shooter fired more than 40 rounds from a 9mm handgun into a classroom in the Barus and Holley engineering building around 4 p.m. on Saturday before fleeing on foot, officials have said.
“I believe he’s probably a loner who expresses [his anger] in the confines of a private place online,” Kelly continued. “He’s watching everything he can about himself on the news. All these guys have a certain amount of paranoia, I believe this guy is no different. He wants to kill kids but he’s scared of doing the time for it.”
Fox News contributor Paul Mauro said sources told him that live ammunition was found at the shooting scene at Brown University, marking a positive sign for the investigation as police continue to search for the unidentified shooter.
“What I can tell you from my sources is that I think quite significantly, they have live rounds, that is, rounds that were not fired on detonated rounds,” Mauro said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday. “Why does that matter? Because shell casings have enclosed a detonation. That's how bullets work. Which means they often destroy evidence and they're scorched."
“In the case of live rounds, think about what happens there on a nine millimeter automatic,” Mauro continued. “The perpetrator has to fat finger those live rounds, bullets, into a magazine, which is the sleeve that holds them and that gets put into the handle of the gun. That's how a semi-automatic works.”
Mauro said the evidence could be a “positive sign for the investigation” that has stretched into a sixth day Thursday.
“Live rounds at the scene, I think, is a hopeful sign for getting usable DNA, even if he's not in the database,” Mauro said.
The Providence police chief has confirmed investigators recovered physical evidence, including DNA, at the Brown University shooting scene that police are working to process.
When Fox News on Wednesday asked Col. Oscar Perez whether investigators were able to find live ammunition from the scene, the police chief said investigators were able to get physical evidence.
“Oh yeah, we seized a few physical evidence and we're in the process of examining that evidence,” Perez told Fox News. “And yes, we have some DNA that we manipulated and so it just progresses everyday.”
Perez added: “It progresses everyday with forensics, it progresses everyday with witness statements and so yeah, we're just trying to find out and we are going to do our best.”
A law enforcement official familiar with the case told The New York Times on condition of anonymity that DNA, along with fingerprints, came from shell casings from the shooting scene.
Fox News' Bryan Llenas and Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Providence Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News on Wednesday the city will "certainly be doing a review" of its cameras following a fatal shooting at Brown University on Saturday.
The unidentified gunman, who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, is still at large as the manhunt drags into a fifth day.
"We will certainly be doing a review to think about where we might need additional camera footage," Smiley said. "We do have a network of technology, including things like license plate readers, which are aiding in this investigation."
He added the local police department is sending officers out to speak to residents about obtaining their doorbell or home security camera footage.
"Many of the residences have cameras, which is partially one of the reasons why it's taking so long, because we have to go door to door, but also why we're continuing to generate good new video because we're looking through vehicles [like Teslas, which have] cameras," Smiley said.
Fox News' Bryan Llenas contributed to this report.
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