Local law enforcement is coming under heavy pressure as, after four days, they have been unable to apprehend a man who walked into a ground-floor classroom at Brown University, fired 40 or more rounds from a 9 mm pistol, and simply walked away.
I have seen no reference to a silencer, so I assume the shooter made a lot of noise. (And silenced bullets are not silent, either.) It was around 4:00 in the afternoon. The campus must have been full of students, professors and others, as final exams were in progress. And yet, the murderer strolled away without being challenged.
No one from the room that he shot up followed him, apparently. Did they raise a hue and cry? Did they try to rally passers-by to apprehend him? Apparently no one rushing toward the sound of gunfire saw the murderer emerge from the building, or if they saw him, they did nothing. Law enforcement has now released video clips of the shooter walking down the street, up to a mile or more away from the scene of the crime, unmolested.
Law enforcement is looking bad, including the FBI. Director Kash Patel touted the FBI’s use of “critical geolocation capabilities” to find the person of interest who was quickly let go. But I wonder more about the citizenry, off campus but especially on campus. I have seen no explanation for how a murderer can walk in to a classroom at 4 in the afternoon, fire off 40 or more rounds, kill and wound a number of people, and simply walk away. Apparently it is easier to commit mass murder than we realized.
