Trump questions Brown University's lack of security cameras after shooting: 'No excuse'

President Trump on Wednesday questioned Brown University's lack of security cameras after the weekend shooting on campus, saying there was "no excuse for that."

"Why did Brown University have so few Security Cameras? There can be no excuse for that. In the modern age, it just doesn’t get worse!!! President DJT," Trump posted on Truth Social early Wednesday.

The shooting occurred on Saturday, leaving two people dead and nine injured. The shooter is still at large, and authorities are trying to identify a person of interest whose image was captured on cameras outside campus grounds.

During a press conference on Tuesday, officials were questioned about the lack of sufficient security cameras in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooting occurred, despite Brown's $7.2 billion endowment, Fox News reported.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that Brown built an addition onto the front of the academic building around five years ago. The addition is equipped with cameras, he explained.

"So, there's the back part of the building, the old part, and the front part, the new part," Democratic Neronha told reporters. "The shooting occurs in the old part towards the back … and that older part of the building, there are fewer, if any, cameras in that location, I imagine, because it's an older building.

"So, as students are fleeing the area of the shooting into the new part of the building, there are cameras in that brand-new building that show that chaos," he added. 

Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said there was no clear video of the shooter from inside the engineering building where the attack occurred, despite Brown having 1,200 security cameras across campus.

Neronha said that the shooting happened at the "very edge" of the building that's on the "very edge" of Brown's campus.

"So, as those of you who know Providence know, you are very quickly into a residential neighborhood, which is why the video footage you're seeing of this … person of interest movements pre- and post-shooting are in that neighborhood," he said.