Manhunt continues for killer of two students on campus Saturday, with suspect considered armed and dangerous

The governor of Rhode Island insisted on Monday evening that everything was being done by law enforcement to catch the person responsible for the mass shooting at Brown University in the state’s capital on Saturday that killed two people and wounded nine others, as a huge manhunt continued.

“We want to see the individual that pulled the trigger on these young kids identified, apprehended and brought to justice,” Daniel McKee, the state’s governor and a Democrat, said at a press conference early on Monday evening.

At least two people were killed and nine others injured in Saturday attack that occurred in engineering building on Providence, Rhode Island campus

A person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine is being released after the investigation took law enforcement authorities in a “different direction,” officials said Sunday night.

The disclosure was made at a hastily convened late night news conference to address the killings that have rattled the Ivy League campus. It came more than 12 hours after officials had announced that they had taken a person into custody. The Rhode Island attorney general, Peter Neronha, said authorities had since concluded there is “no basis to consider him a person of interest.”

The release leaves law enforcement without any publicly disclosed suspect, with officials pledging to redouble efforts in the investigation by canvassing for video surveillance that could help pinpoint the killer’s identity.