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PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 In the chaotic moments after a gunman barged into Brown University and fatally shot two students and injured nine others, police officers responding to the unfolding tragedy briefly thought they’d captured the killer.
“Yes, the suspect’s down in custody,” a police dispatcher can be heard in newly released video from the Dec. 13 attack.
Some two minutes later Providence Police Lt. Patrick Potter, whose bodycam video was released Monday, delivered an update.
“We have no suspect yet,” Potter is heard saying.
It would be another five days before detectives tracked down gunman Claudio Neves Valente<\/a> to a storage unit in New Hampshire, where the 48-year-old former Ph.D. candidate was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The bodycam video was an eye-opening look at the frightening aftermath of the Brown campus shooting when police were searching room-by-room for the suspect, trying to comfort and care for terrified students, and trying to coordinate with campus police to get past locked doors.
“I need keys to the building,” an officer can be heard saying at one point. “I need somebody from Brown University to get us in here.”
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said in a statement the city released the video to comply with requests from news outlets across the U.S. and other countries for body camera video, audio clips and other public records in connection with the shooting<\/a>.
Smiley said they redacted the most graphic, violent images to avoid harming victims and \u201cmaintain the trust we have built in our community.\u201d
\u201cIt is incredibly important to me that the city of Providence remains fully transparent, accountable and compliant with the state\u2019s Access to Public Records Act,\u201d Smiley said in the statement. \u201cWe also know that the footage and audio we are required to release will likely be harmful and traumatizing for the victims, families and neighbors who are still trying to heal and recover from this incident.\u201d
The newly released material includes audio of a campus police officer calling city police at 4:07 p.m. on the day of the carnage.
\u201cThis is Brown police. We have confirmed gunshots at 184 Hope Street,\u201d the officer said. \u201cWe do have a victim but we do not know where they are.\u201d
Four minutes later, campus police called back with an update: \u201cWe have a suspect description, wearing all black and a ski mask, unknown travel direction.\u201d
Separately, the city released the body camera video of Potter, who was in charge of the initial response to the shooting.
It also shows, among other things, officers trying to find a safe spot to send the students evacuated from the building.
Scattered backpacks, gloves, books, and other items can be seen as officers search the building looking for a possible shooter and his victims.
\u201cLet\u2019s get these rescues in, where are we staging rescue?\u201d an officer, who was not identified, says in the video.
He later cautions other officers, \u201cShooter might still be in the building, so use caution alright.\u201d
Long portions of the video are either blacked out or with the audio redacted. At times, the video is blocked by the officer\u2019s arms in front of the camera.
The city did not release any other body camera video besides Potter’s.
At one point, other audio captures officers describing a possible sighting of the shooter on the second floor of another building as well as a report of a suspect being taken into custody.
But it’s clear from the video that police did not let their guard down.
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna work on the premise that that\u2019s not him,” an officer can be heard saying. “We\u2019re gonna conduct a secondary search.\u201d
Smiley said they waited to release the video until after a memorial service was held the previous week on Brown\u2019s campus at the request of the victims’ families.
The shooting started after Neves Valente entered a study session in a Brown academic building and opened fire on students, killing 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook and 18-year-old freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounding nine others.
For the wounded survivors, having to identify their attacker was re-traumatizing, according to a newly released police incident report.
One victim \u201cquickly froze, physically pushed back\u201d and began crying and shaking as she confirmed the image matched the person who shot her.
Another victim \u201ctook a deep breath, shut his eyes, changed his breathing pattern and confirmed that the shooter he saw in the hallway appeared to be the person in the photos presented.\u201d
Neves Valente, who had been a graduate student at Brown<\/a> studying physics during the 2000-01 school year, also fatally shot Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro<\/a> at Loureiro\u2019s Boston-area home.
Neves Valente had attended school with Loureiro in Portugal in the 1990s.
The Justice Department has since said Neves Valente planned the attack for years<\/a> and left behind videos in which he confessed to the killings but gave no motive.
The FBI recovered the electronic device containing the series of videos during a search of the storage facility where Neves Valente\u2019s body was found<\/a>.
The Associated Press
Corky Siemaszko is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital.
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