Two days after the deadly shooting at Brown University left two students dead and nine wounded, Providence and federal authorities still have no clear suspect, motive, or weapon to point to — and that failure is unacceptable to hardworking Americans who expect basic safety on campus. The attack on a study session in the Barus & Holley engineering building has triggered a multi-agency manhunt, yet the timeline from the scene to any real answers remains disturbingly thin.
Retired FBI profiler James Fitzgerald told Jesse Watters Primetime plainly: “Something isn’t right here,” and he slammed the sluggish, muddled flow of information coming from investigators. When a seasoned law-enforcement professional warns that early facts don’t add up and that political concerns may be blunting the investigation, the public should listen — not reflexively defend every bureaucratic misstep.
Authorities have been forced to rely on piecemeal surveillance and doorbell videos because the older wing where the shooting occurred has limited camera coverage, a glaring gap that allowed the shooter to melt into the streets. Police detained and then released a person of interest, a turn of events that has only deepened public anxiety while investigators scramble to corroborate fragmentary leads and enhanced footage released to the public.
Students and neighbors are fed up — rightly so — with explanations that sound like excuses: Brown touts more than a thousand cameras campus-wide, yet the crucial engineering wing was effectively a blind spot when students were targeted. That mismatch between campus security bragging and operational reality is exactly why families pay top dollar for elite schools and deserve honest accountability when those systems fail.
Fitzgerald suggested what many conservatives have suspected all along: a hand-wringing culture of political correctness and performative statements too often substitutes for decisive investigative work. This isn’t about partisan score-keeping; it’s about the simple duty of government to catch killers and reassure communities, not to spin narratives or manage optics while people remain at risk.
With more than 400 officers and federal agents mobilized and the FBI offering rewards to break the case, the manpower is there — now the leadership must match it with relentless, evidence-first policing and clearer communication with the public. Whatever the cause of the investigative stumbles, a frank reassessment of procedures, camera placement, and interagency coordination must follow so that no other community gets let down this way.
Hardworking Americans deserve campuses where their children can study without fearing for their lives, and they deserve criminal investigators who prioritize finding answers over protecting reputations. Listen to experienced voices like Fitzgerald and demand accountability from Providence and Brown — leave the political spin to cable pundits and get back to the one thing that matters: catching the man who committed this atrocity.
If local leaders can’t restore confidence quickly, federal oversight and tougher, transparent policing protocols should be brought in immediately to protect students and the community. The time for excuses is over; we need results, clear answers, and justice for the victims and their families.
