‘This isn’t a Brown problem’: Trump blames school in shooting, Neronha calls shooting ‘symptom’

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — President Donald Trump blamed Brown University when asked why the FBI has been unable to make an arrest in Saturday’s deadly mass shooting.

In response to the reporter’s question on the ongoing search for the suspect, Trump said:

It’s always difficult. So far we’ve done a good job of doing it with Charlie (Kirk), with the various times this has happened, they have done it in pretty much record time but you would really have to ask the school in little bit more about that because this was a school problem. They had their own guards, their own police, their own everything but you would have to ask that question to the school and not to the FBI. We came in after the fact. And the FBI will do a good job but they came in after the fact.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha dismissed the notion that the school was to blame in the incident, saying in part:

Evidence is going to point to a particular person, and it did here. But when we analyze, once you identify that person, OK, that’s why it’s so important that I Identify the person on the video released today. Once you do that, you can get a search warrant, for example, for their phone, for their room, for their car. You can take a sample of their DNA and test all of that…So, this, this isn’t a Brown problem. It’s a national problem, a symptom that happened here in Rhode Island.