Officials on Tuesday released a new photo and video footage of a person of interest they are looking for in the Brown University shooting investigation, asking for the public’s help in a chaotic search that has stretched into a fourth day.
The new photo shows a person dressed in dark clothes, a black hat and a face mask, wearing what appears to be a black cross-body bag. The video footage released by police, which appears to be taken from multiple home surveillance cameras, captures the person walking along streets on the East side of Providence more than an hour before a shooter opened fire in a Brown classroom. The attacker killed two students and wounded nine others.
Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman from Virginia, who were both killed in the shooting, were “brilliant and beloved,” Brown University President Christina Paxson said in a statement confirming their deaths Tuesday.
#BREAKING: The FBI, in coordination with the @ProvidenceRIPD and @RIStatePolice, is releasing a new image of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on 12/13/25. The #FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification,… pic.twitter.com/wOKSR6Qr6q
— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) December 16, 2025
The new photo and video are the latest leads police have publicly disclosed in an investigation that has vexed law enforcement officials and left the campus community uneasy. A previous person of interest was detained Sunday, then released about a day later after officials said they had “effectively cleared” the man of wrongdoing related to the shooting at Brown. They have since turned to other leads, hoping those fresh lines of investigation, alongside the public’s eye, will help them make headway in the case.
Initially, the FBI’s Boston field office posted more than six minutes of footage of the person of interest to its X account Tuesday afternoon, writing that it was a “video timeline showing the movements of a person of interest.” That footage was deleted within minutes, before local police posted the still-available minute-long video. The FBI and Providence Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment about why the longer video was taken down.
Providence police later released a roughly minute-long clip of surveillance footage, and the FBI released an expanded five-minute version showing the person of interest.
#BREAKING The FBI, in coordination with our partners at @ProvidenceRIPD and @RIStatePolice, is releasing an updated video timeline showing the movements of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on 12/13/25. The #FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000… pic.twitter.com/t9gE2CjqnE
— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) December 16, 2025
The university will soon announce plans to honor Cook and Umurzokov when students return to campus in the spring.
“It is important that we never forget them,” Paxson said Tuesday.
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