Neighborhood cameras capture potential shooter’s route around Brown University

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The shooting at Brown University on Saturday happened inside an engineering building at the eastern edge of campus, where the Ivy League school blends into a residential neighborhood.

Hours before the attack, security camera footage captured a person of interest police say may have been “casing” a quiet and affluent corner of College Hill, just out of reach of the busier streets that cross through the urban campus in Providence, Rhode Island.

Here is a timeline of video evidence that police and the FBI have disclosed so far:

2 p.m. to 2:08 p.m.: The earliest of videos disclosed by police show a person of interest in dark clothing and a mask sauntering along a Manning Street sidewalk before turning onto Cooke Street and later on George Street, passing stately mansions dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The person of interest will spend most of the next hour just about a block away from the much busier Hope Street, an unofficial eastern border of Brown’s campus and one of the better-known streets that traverses Providence’s East Side.

2:08 to 2:13 p.m. The same person walks on Benevolent Street but pauses and turns around in front of the Aldrich House, home to the Rhode Island Historical Society, which has cameras near its main entrance and side door. A spokesperson for the society later declined to comment ...