(NewsNation) — The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, said both his city and Brown University would benefit from security reviews following last weekend’s deadly campus shooting.
He said that includes an audit into surveillance assets that may have been lacking when a gunman entered a university building Saturday and opened fire in a classroom before fleeing. Authorities initially struggled to come up with useable images, saying cameras were not ubiquitous at the older building where the gunman struck.
“We’re going to do a full review of this incident, of our response,” Mayor Brett Smiley told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” on Friday. “We certainly pray that nothing like this happens again in our community, but something’s going to happen, and we want to be well prepared for it. Brown should do the same, and I think they will.”
Police release video tracking man wanted in Brown University shooting
Two students died and nine others were injured in the Dec. 13 attack. The suspected gunman who eluded police for several days, Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was found dead of self-inflicted injuries in New Hampshire. Valente is also suspected of killing an MIT professor with whom he was acquainted Monday…