Investigators report discovery of unused bullets at Brown University shooting site: Sources
NEW: Fox News’ Paul Mauro reports authorities have live rounds that were not fired from the Brown University shooter that could possibly possess the attacker’s DNA.
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PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND: The recent shooting at Brown University is a constantly evolving story. With the shooter still at large, law enforcement has asked the civilians to keep an eye out.
As details of the shooting and its investigation come to light, Fox News contributor and former NYPD cop Paul Mauro revealed on 'Fox and Friends', on Thursday, December 18, that his sources told him that live ammunition was found at the crime scene.
He also said that the same could help police find a DNA match even if the suspect was not in the system.
Paul Mauro sees ‘hopeful sign’ in Brown University DNA evidence
During his latest appearance on ‘Fox and Friends’, Paul Mauro stated that there were unfired live rounds found at Brown University.
He added that it mattered because live rounds were undetonated; the perpetrators would have used his fingers and hands to insert those bullets into the magazine of his gun.
Mauro added that since they had a suspect handling rounds that did not explode, it was a “hopeful sign for getting usable DNA” even if the suspect wasn’t in the police database.
Paul Mauro explained that even if the shooter was not in the database, the police would use the “familiar DNA technique,” which could get the police department a step closer to finding the shooter by identifying a “cousin” or another family member and “work back from there.”
He added that the discovery was a “positive” sign for the investigation.
Criminal profiler says suspected shooter likely a ‘loner’
Criminal profiler John Kelly also chimed in on the suspected shooter responsible for wounding nine students and killing two at Brown University.
While speaking to Fox News on Thursday, he provided a profile for the shooter and said he was likely “extremely angry” and “lonely.”
Commenting on why the shooter scoped out the area beforehand and prepared an escape route, Kelly stated that he was “scared of getting caught.”
He explained that the shoot-out did not seem like something the killer believed was worth dying for, but something that he was angry about.
He also said that the shooter was likely to be confined to a “private place online,” assuming that he was watching everything about himself on the news, because “all these guys have a certain amount of paranoia.”
“I believe this guy is no different. He wants to kill kids but he’s scared of doing the time for it,” he added.
