Fearful Brown University students are leaving Rhode Island, having lost confidence in local authorities’ ability to protect them following a deadly shooting incident.

Several students spoke with the Daily Mail, but many requested anonymity due to their heightened fear, sharing that they have already departed the state in search of safety.

The suspect responsible for the tragic event, which claimed two lives and injured nine others last Saturday, remains at large. The FBI released a person of interest on Sunday night but has yet to apprehend anyone.

“It’s just crazy that there are no leads, and they still haven’t caught the guy. It’s really frightening, to be honest,” expressed a student who preferred to stay unnamed in a conversation with the Daily Mail.

The student further commented, “All they have is a single blurry image that was posted just half an hour ago. No one will identify him from that,” revealing they had already left the state by early Monday.

The student referred to the grainy images the agency shared Monday afternoon that showed a shadowy figure walking near the campus. Many are furious with how little the images show.  

Karsen Chimineli, a 20-year-old junior at Brown University, echoed similar concerns. 

After barricading herself in her dorm room for hours on end, Chimineli has since headed back home to her family in New York – something she is especially glad she did now that the killer, described as ‘armed and dangerous,’ remains on the run. 

On Monday evening authorities released clearer images of the suspect and announced a $50,000 for any information leading to their arrest

The FBI released grainy footage of the alleged shooter on Monday afternoon, but many, including student were left upset over its lack of clarity 

The FBI has since placed a $50,000 bounty on the suspect for any information leading to the shooter’s arrest.  

‘I knew I wanted to get out of there as fast as I could… Happy I did that now that he’s released,’ she said, referring to the release of Benjamin Erickson, who was taken into custody early Sunday morning at a local hotel. He was later released.  

Roman Novy-Marx, another junior at the Ivy League, has lost hope in law enforcement as well. 

‘The FBI having no idea with what’s going on or who’s even a suspect definitely instills a lack of faith to say the least,’ he told the Daily Mail. 

He added: ‘The truth is I don’t think anyone feels safe on campus, its almost like a horror movie to be there and I’m grateful to finally be getting out of here.’ 

Novy-Marx detailed his friend’s act of bravery that lead him to become wounded in the process, telling the Daily Mail: ‘My friend was shot while helping drag bodies of people outside so that they could be treated better.

‘He was doing what he could to help out’.’ 

Novy-Marx described the bout of panic that lurched across campus at precisely 4.22 pm. 

MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, 18, and Ella Cook, 19, were tragically killed in the vicious attack 

Planning for a camp fire and guitar playing Novy-Marx was on his way out the door when he received the text informing them of an active shooter on campus and urging them to run, hide and at last resort – fight.

Less than a block away from the building his boss messaged him telling him to run and ‘get the hell out of campus’, he got in his car and immediately drove to the woods hoping that it would ‘buy some time’.

He then said he couldn’t get back to Campus because when the FBI eventually turned up they had closed off the perimeter.

He describes just a sheer amount of texts being hurtled back and forth ‘asking if we were okay, checking if we were still alive’ he said.

He said his friend who was shot in the backside while fleeing the scene is now recovering in hospital ‘but he’s alive and I think he will survive.’

He believes that his friend only survived the attack because the person in front of him took the brunt of the shooters fire, acting as a shield. He alleges that this person may have been Mukhammad Aziz, the 18-year-old student who lost his life. 

The other victim who died in the horrid attack has been identified as 19-year-old Ella Cook. 

Novy-Max said the only first hand account he had been privy to was that of Joseph Oduro, the teaching assistant in the lecture hall at the time of the shooting.

Oduro was at the front of the class as the shooter strode in from the back and made eye contact with him. 

The news that the shooter is still at large has shaken up the Rhode Island community. Here, FBI officials are shown scouring the area for clues

Oduro told students that the gun the shooter carried was so big he thought that was the end for him. 

Meanwhile, Chimineli locked down inside her dorm room when the first alert rang out that frightful day. 

Then at 4.51pm another message came through stating there was a person in custody. By 5.11pm police walked that back and said no one was in custody. 

At the same time, Chimineli was worried for her friend that she knew was studying in the building the shooting happened.

She barricaded in her room from 4:30-10:00 and turned her lights off, shut blinds and remained quiet. She later learned her friend was safe. 

Both Chimineli and Novy-Marx said that their professors had reached out and some even offered students, lifts to the airport, meals, someone to talk to and even to stay with them if they didn’t feel safe.

‘Student’s biggest concern should be finals, not a school shooting.’ Chimineli proclaimed.