By Jack Phillips
Contributing Writer
The FBI on Monday evening said it is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the suspect in the shooting that left two dead at Brown University over the weekend.
In a post on X, the bureau’s Boston office said that the reward will be provided to anyone who can give information to officials that leads “to the identification, arrest and conviction” of the person.
Officials said that two people were killed and nine others were injured in the shooting in a classroom setting at the Providence, Rhode Island, university on Saturday.
“Our agents and analysts remain fully embedded with our law enforcement partners. We are working together to track down leads, canvass neighborhoods, and develop intelligence,” the law enforcement agency added.
“Our Evidence Response Team remains on campus processing the scene and our lab at Quantico has sent personnel to assist in documenting the trajectory of the bullets.”
Over the weekend, the FBI announced that a person of interest was located via geolocation technology before that individual was released on Sunday evening. The manhunt then resumed.
“We sent additional resources and personnel earlier today to help track down leads, canvass neighborhoods, and develop intelligence,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday in a post on social media.
The FBI added that it “will continue to provide all assets, resources and personnel to support our partners so we can bring the individual responsible for this mass shooting to justice, and get the victims, survivors, their families, and all of you the answers you deserve.”
In addition to the announcement of the reward, the FBI released a description of the possible suspect, saying that he is around 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with a stocky build. Several videos and photos of the individual were released by the Providence Police Department, showing a male in dark-colored clothing wearing a dark cap and a mask.
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said in a statement that he had told the Rhode Island State Police to “continue to provide all necessary investigative and patrol support to the city and the campus.”
“Like so many of us who have been impacted by the tragedy at Brown University this weekend, I am anxious to have the shooter identified, apprehended, and brought to justice,” McKee said earlier on Tuesday.
The two students killed were Ella Cook, a sophomore from Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a Uzbekistan-born Virginian, officials said.
Cook was vice president of the school’s College Republicans and a “leading Republican voice at Brown,” according to an X post from the New York Young Republican Club. Her LinkedIn profile included jobs as an ice cream server at a Mountain Brook creamery and a program assistant in New York.
Umurzokov, an aspiring neurosurgeon, was his family’s “biggest role model,” according to a GoFundMe campaign set up by his family.
“He always lent a helping hand to anyone in need without hesitation, and was the most kind-hearted person our family knew,” the family wrote on the site. “Our family is incredibly devastated by this loss.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
