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Hardworking Americans are watching in disgust as the manhunt for the Brown University shooter drags into a fifth day with answers still out of reach after two students were killed and nine others wounded at the Barus and Holley engineering building. Families and the campus community deserve swift justice, but right now the picture is painfully incomplete and the pain is real.
Law enforcement has released enhanced surveillance clips of a masked person of interest and, this week, new images of someone said to have been “in proximity” to that individual as investigators chase every lead through neighboring streets and doorbell cameras. Authorities are asking residents to comb through private footage and contact tip lines as police canvas a tight quarter-mile area of focus around College Hill.
The raw truth is Brown’s vaunted camera network did little good where it mattered most: the attack happened in an older wing with few, if any, working cameras, leaving investigators with grainy frames and frustrating blind spots. This is not just bad luck; it’s a failure of common-sense security on a campus that talks a lot about safety but evidently didn’t prioritize it where students study.
Federal agents have poured in to assist local authorities, and while officials say they’ve recovered physical and DNA evidence that could be crucial, the public rightly wonders why it has taken so long to identify a suspect in such a brazen attack. There was even an early detention that was later released, a reminder that investigators must be thorough but also that clear, decisive action must follow the leads people bring forward.
Retired FBI agent Jason Pack told Fox hosts that pressure from anxious families and a panicked public won’t solve the case — evidence will — but conservatives know pressure is often what forces institutions and officials to stop playing procedural games and start producing results. We can and should insist on both competent policing and accountability from university leaders who seem far too comfortable hiding behind bureaucracy while students’ lives hang in the balance.
We should also pause to honor the victims: Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov were bright young Americans with futures ripped away in an instant, and their families deserve more than platitudes from administrators and officials. Communities grieving such real loss have a right to demand transparency, rapid arrests, and meaningful security reforms so no other family has to bury a child after a preventable tragedy.
Enough with the excuses. Law-abiding citizens want safe campuses without becoming captives of virtue-signaling administrators who care more about optics than locks, cameras, and commonsense protections. It’s time for Rhode Island leaders, Brown’s trustees, and federal partners to stop the finger-pointing, follow the evidence, and give hardworking Americans the justice and security they deserve.
