Fear grips Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 9; hunt on for gunman

Hundreds of police officers were scouringthe Brown University campus along with nearby neighbourhoods and poring over video in the hunt for a shooter who opened fire in a classroom, killing two people and wounding nine others.

- AGENCIES

The search stretched late into the night, well after the shooting erupted Saturday afternoon in the engineering building of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.

Surveillance video released by police shows the suspect, dressedin black, calmly walking away from the scene. His face isnot visible and investigators said it wasn‘tclear whether the suspect is a student.

The suspect was last seen leavingthe engineering building and some witnesses told police the suspect, who could be in his 30s, may havebeen wearing acamouflage mask, Providence Police Deputy Chief Timothy O'Hara said.