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Providence Releases Redacted Bodycam Video, Records From Brown University Shooting

Officials limited disclosure to a single, heavily edited video to meet records law requirements without further traumatizing victims.

Overview

  • The release includes roughly 20 minutes of Lt. Patrick Potter’s body‑camera footage beginning at 4:16 p.m., plus police and fire incident reports and 911/radio recordings.
  • Video shows officers clearing the Barus & Holley complex, staging medical rescues, and searching for a shooter they feared might still be inside, including a brief mistaken detainment of a maintenance worker.
  • Audio captures Brown University Police notifying Providence dispatch at 4:07 p.m. and later describing a suspect dressed in all black with a ski mask and unknown direction of travel.
  • Police reports detail 44 9 mm shell casings, two high‑capacity magazines, and witness accounts of the gunman entering from the rear of Tanner Auditorium and firing toward the front.
  • City officials said publication was delayed until after a campus memorial at families’ request, no additional bodycam videos will be released, the local investigation is complete, and further updates are expected from federal authorities reviewing digital evidence.