A 24-year-old man whom authorities apprehended in connection with the Brown University mass shooting was released from custody and the real gunman is still at large, authorities announced during a surprise press conference late Sunday.
Benjamin Erickson was cuffed just before dawn Sunday at a Hampton Inn hotel near Brown — but now investigators are saying they had the wrong guy.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha explained that it was “difficult” to develop evidence and track down leads in the immediate aftermath of the shooting Saturday, in which two students were killed and another nine injured.