FBI Didn’t Believe There Was Probable Cause to Raid Mar-a-Lago in 2022, New Docs Show

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FBI Didn’t Believe There Was Probable Cause to Raid Mar-a-Lago in 2022, New Docs Show

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has released new emails from the Biden-era bureau, showing that agents doubted that there was probable cause to raid Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of the Justice Department’s classified documents investigation.

The documents and the wider case stem from Trump taking dozens of boxes of records from the White House when he left office in January 2021. Some of the documents he took were classified.

Trump returned hundreds of those documents to the National Archives and Records Administration in early and mid 2022, but the Justice Department sought to raid his estate to take all of them.

By July of that year, the FBI was expressing doubts that the DOJ had the probable cause to do so. Instead, the FBI encouraged officials to continue working with Trump’s team, the newly released FBI emails show.

“[The FBI] does not believe … that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar a Lago,” says a July 20, 2022, email from the bureau’s Washington DC field office.

“A reasonable step would be to recontact [Trump’s] attorney and inquire about any further documents,” the email adds.

By early August, the FBI was resigned to the fact that agents would likely raid Mar-a-Lago, according to the newly released emails. A top FBI official encouraged agents to conduct the search as reasonably as possible.

“Since we heard Mr. Toscas say yesterday in the call that he ‘frankly doesn’t give a damn about the optics’ and Mr. Bratt has already built an antagonistic relationship with (Trump) attorneys…I think it is more than fair to say that the DOJ contact with (Trump attorney) just prior to the execution of the warrant will not go well. DOJ said as much yesterday,” the agent wrote on August 4, 2022.

“I also think that it is fair to say that if FBI calls, having in mind officer safety, to the optics of the search, and the desire to conduct this search in a professional and low key manner, there is a far better chance that the execution will go more smoothly and we may actually gain some measure of cooperation, which could go some way to resolving the mishandling of classified records investigation that is being conducted.”

For days later, the FBI conducted the search after a warrant was approved by U.S. Judge Bruce Reinhart—a former DOJ attorney who worked in the office that was investigating sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to go on to work for Epstein a year later.

Trump was indicted in the classified documents case in 2023, but Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the charges a year later. The case went totally by the wayside after Trump won the election in November 2024.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Silver Industrial Demand Expected to Grow Despite Higher Prices

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Silver Industrial Demand Expected to Grow Despite Higher Prices

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With prices above $60 an ounce, many speculate that industrial demand for silver will fall due to substitution. However, the Silver Institute projects industrial demand will rise as offtake from vital technology sectors accelerates over the next five years.

“Silver will remain an essential component across multiple high-growth sectors as industries race to embrace digital innovation and meet clean energy mandates.”

Along with green energy initiatives, including solar power and electric vehicles, AI infrastructure is expected to use increasing amounts of silver.

Last year, industrial demand for silver hit the highest level on record.

According to the Silver Institute, industrial demand will soften moderately this year, declining by about 2 percent due to “global economic uncertainty stemming from tariff policies and geopolitical tensions, as well as a more rapid pace of thrifting due to soaring silver prices.” However, despite the modest drop in demand, 2025 will still likely come in with the second-highest silver industrial offtake on record, and it is expected to continue growing in the near future.

Solar Energy

Silver is the best conductor of electricity of all metals at room temperature. That makes it a vital input in the production of solar panels.

Solar photovoltaic technology ranks among the most significant and fastest-growing sources of silver demand.

In 2014, the solar sector only accounted for around 11 percent of silver demand. That rose to 29 percent in 2024.

According to a research paper by scientists at the University of New South Wales, solar manufacturers will likely require over 20 percent of the current annual silver supply by 2027. By 2050, solar panel production will use approximately 85–98 percent of the current global silver reserves.

There are some potential headwinds for solar energy silver demand.

As the Silver Institute noted, although the global trajectory of PV installations remains strong, technological developments have reduced the amount of silver required in some PV cells. As the price of silver continues to rise, there will undoubtedly be increasing efforts to substitute. However, silver’s superior characteristics make this a difficult prospect.

There is also the potential for a decrease in government subsidies for the solar energy sector in the near future, particularly in the U.S. However, the Silver Institute expects this will likely be offset by ambitious targets in others. For example, the European Union has set a target to deliver at least 700 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2030.

EVs

The EV revolution is driving substantial increases in silver demand.

Electric vehicles require significantly more silver than internal combustion vehicles. Each battery-electric vehicles use approximately 25-50 grams of silver, 67-79 percent more than internal combustion vehicles. Silver is critical for various EV applications, including battery management systems, power electronics, charging infrastructure, and electrical contacts.

The Silver Institute forecasts global automotive silver demand will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 3.4 percent between 2025 and 2031.

The rapid increase in EV demand and production means that EV vehicles will overtake internal combustion engine vehicles as the primary source of automotive silver demand by 2027, and account for 59 percent of the market by 2031.

Additionally, electrifying automotives increases silver demand due to the parallel need to expand charging infrastructure.

AI

The AI revolution is rapidly transforming computing. It is also driving increased silver demand as companies are rapidly expanding data centers.

Data centers provide the physical infrastructure needed to run cloud computing services, store and manage data, and power AI systems.

The Silver Institute estimates that total global IT power capacity increased by approximately 53 times, from 0.93 GW in 2000 to nearly 50 GW in 2025.

Precise silver-loading data connected with this expansion in computing is difficult to pin down, but the Silver Institute says “the link is clear.”

“A 5,252 percent increase in IT power demand translates into more computing hardware and, consequently, greater demand for silver.”

This sector should be relatively insulated from demand shocks due to rising prices or an economic contraction because governments worldwide are prioritizing data centers as “critical infrastructure.” That means AI companies enjoy policies that streamline regulation and provide incentives, including grants, tax breaks, and fast-track approvals.

According to the Silver Institute, “Initiatives in the US, UK, EU, and China aim to attract large-scale private investment, reduce barriers, and expand capacity to meet the rising demand for AI and cloud services—ultimately driving growth in materials like silver.”

The speed of digitalization and the widespread adoption of AI are expected will place growing demands on both digital and physical infrastructure.

“As AI applications diversify into media production, design, and simulation, demand for servers’ processing power and, by extension, data center infrastructure is expected to continue growing.”

Given its growing role in the global digitalization, the Silver Institute calls silver a “next-generation metal.”

With the silver market on track for its fifth straight structural market deficit, growing tech offtake will only add to demand and further pressure supply.

Given the forecast supply and demand levels, Metals Focus projects demand will outstrip supply by 95 million ounces. That would bring the cumulative 5-year market deficit to 820 million ounces, an entire year of average mine output.

Since 2010, the silver market has accumulated a supply deficit of over 580 million ounces.

This is yet another reason to be bullish on silver.

You can download the full Silver Institute report HERE.

Mike Maharrey is a journalist and market analyst for Money Metals with over a decade of experience in precious metals. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Kentucky and a BA in journalism from the University of South Florida.

Falling Prices Are Bad For You??

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Falling Prices Are Bad For You??

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Price inflation has slowed, but that doesn’t mean prices are coming down. They just aren’t rising quite as fast as they were.

Price inflation is by design. Remember, the powers-that-be target a 2-percent reduction in the value of your dollar.

Conventional wisdom holds that falling prices are detrimental to the economy.

Once again, conventional wisdom is wildly wrong.

If you are a sane person, you understand this. In fact, most people wish prices would go down right about now. It would undoubtedly help your quality of life, right?

In reality, deflation may be bad for the government, but it’s not a problem for any normal person or for the economy more broadly.

In a recent post on X, somebody trotted out the conventional wisdom, claiming we need fiat money that the government can incessantly print because “It became a necessity when the inelasticity of gold-backed currencies failed to accommodate aggressive economic growth.”

However, as economic historian Tom Woods pointed out, this is a ridiculous notion, easily disproved by looking at American economic history. The United States became an industrial power even as prices fell and operated with “inelastic” money.

Woods explained the economic reality.

“If there’s more economic activity, you don’t need ‘more money’ to accommodate it. Prices simply fall so the same amount of money can process the increased number of transactions. No big deal.”

When faced with this logic, proponents of the fiat system will tell you that hard money exacerbates or even causes depressions.

This is also wrong.

Economists Andrew Atkeson and Patrick J. Kehoe published an article in 2004 titled “Deflation and Depression: Is There an Empirical Link?” in the American Economic Review.

There isn’t.

The authors evaluated evidence from 17 countries over a 100-year period and came to this conclusion.

“A broad historical look finds more periods of deflation with reasonable growth than with depression, and many more periods of depression with inflation than with deflation. Overall, the data show virtually no link between deflation and depression.”

But don’t falling prices discourage investment? Doesn’t this prevent economic growth, or at least stall it?

No.

Falling prices don’t discourage investment because costs also fall. After all, costs are just the price of inputs. As Woods noted, as long as there is a spread between input prices and output prices, investment remains unaffected.

“Part of the entrepreneur’s job is anticipating future prices. Entrepreneurs bid on the factors of production in anticipation of what they believe the finished product can fetch on the market. If they believe that price is going to be low, then they lower their bids for the factors of production, and the whole thing is a wash. If the entrepreneur fails to anticipate this, then it’s like any other entrepreneurial error: in the worst case, he goes bankrupt, and his resources are redistributed in bankruptcy court. Production continues as before, but with new owners, and this obviously has no overall effect on the economy.”

The idea that falling prices are bad is nothing but gaslighting by the government and its enablers in academia and corporate media. They need constant monetary inflation to support government borrowing and spending. Fiat money is fuel for big government.

So, they want you to believe that falling prices are bad for you, even though you know in your heart of hearts that they are not. That way, they can keep printing and claim they are protecting you from the horror of paying less for things tomorrow than you are today.

Don’t fall for it!

Mike Maharrey is a journalist and market analyst for Money Metals with over a decade of experience in precious metals. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Kentucky and a BA in journalism from the University of South Florida.

Shots Fired at JFK Airport

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Shots Fired at JFK Airport

(Headline USA) An on-duty Customs and Border Protection officer fired his weapon several times on a freeway leading to New York’s main airport after he said another driver attacked him over a minor traffic crash, Port Authority police said.

It wasn’t clear if any of the shots hit the other driver, who fled the scene after the shooting, according to the customs officer. The episode near John F. Kennedy International Airport remains under investigation, and no arrests have been made. The officer was unhurt.

The two-vehicle crash happened shortly before 5 a.m. Tuesday in the southbound lanes of the Van Wyck Expressway. The Port Authority didn’t say if the officer was driving an official vehicle, and his name has not been released.

The investigation led to traffic delays in the area during the morning commute, but those issues lessened as the morning progressed.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Trinidad and Tobago To Open Its Airports to US Military as US Continues Buildup Near Venezuela

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Trinidad and Tobago To Open Its Airports to US Military as US Continues Buildup Near Venezuela

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Trinidad and Tobago will allow the US military to use its airports in the coming weeks, according to a statement from the Caribbean island nation’s Foreign Ministry, as the US continues ramping up military activity near Venezuela.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Ministry cited recent military cooperation with the US in its statement, including the recent installation of a radar system in the country.

“In keeping with established bilateral cooperation, the Ministry has granted approvals for United States military aircraft to transit Trinidad and Tobago’s airports in the coming weeks. The United States has advised that these movements are logistical in nature, facilitating supply replenishment and routine personnel rotations,” the ministry said.

US cooperation with Trinidad and Tobago has also involved intensified US military drills in the country, which lies just seven miles off the coast of Venezuela. Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has strongly supported the US bombing campaign against alleged drug boats in the region, which has killed citizens of her country and has caused bodies to wash up on Trinidad’s coast.

Amery Brown, an opposition senator and former foreign minister, strongly criticized the announcement about the US military using Trinidad and Tobago’s airports, saying the country has become “complicit facilitators of extrajudicial killings, cross-border tension and belligerence.”

“There is nothing routine about this. It has nothing to do with the usual cooperation and friendly collaborations that we have enjoyed with the USA and all of our neighbors for decades,” Brown added, according to The Associated Press.

The announcement came after a US military aircraft nearly collided with a JetBlue plane that took off from the nearby Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao and was bound for New York. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot told air traffic control after the near miss, which occurred on Friday. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.”

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com. 

 

Reporter Questions Pete Hegseth’s Adviser and is Now Facing Smear Threats

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Reporter Questions Pete Hegseth’s Adviser and is Now Facing Smear Threats

(José Niño, Headline USA) A journalist probing Pentagon leadership has found himself facing intimidation rather than answers.

Six weeks before publication, journalist Dan Friedman received an email from Jack Posobiec asking whether he had a “creepy fetish for Asian women”, according to a report by Mother Jones.  

Posobiec said he planned to include the allegation in a story about him. The message arrived one day after Friedman contacted the Pentagon press office with questions about Eric Geressy, a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The timing raised immediate concern. Friedman interpreted the message as a warning. Publish the story and get smeared.

Geressy plays a central role in the Pentagon campaign to instill a warrior ethos and currently leads a review of the role of women in the armed forces. The Mother Jones report noted that Hegseth has described him as both mentor and critic and awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross for actions during a 2007 ambush in Baghdad.

While reporting, Friedman discovered that Geressy’s email address was linked to a public Goodreads account listing pornographic titles centered on cuckolding and sexualized depictions of Asian women. Those books appeared alongside military histories and works authored by Hegseth. The page disappeared one day after Friedman contacted both Geressy and the Pentagon.

Friedman’s inquiries also addressed a 1997 domestic violence allegation, past foreign relationships, and whether those relationships had been reviewed during security clearance evaluations. The Pentagon delayed responses before chief spokesman Sean Parnell issued a statement saying Geressy “has never posed a security risk or engaged in improper behavior” and accused Mother Jones of publishing a “shoddy hit piece.”

Posobiec’s questions mirrored Friedman’s reporting and arrived with the same deadline she had given the Pentagon. Both Posobiec and Pentagon officials denied coordination. Geressy declined to comment. Friedman concluded that the message served as a form of intimidation aimed at his professional peers and his family.

Rather than retreat, Friedman and her editors pursued further verification. They relied on data from OSINT Industries — a UK-based organization whose platform links personal identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers to corresponding online accounts — to confirm the email address had an associated account. CEO Nathaniel Fried said “it’s 100 percent that that email has an account.” Either Geressy created it or someone used his personal information.

Amazon, which owns Goodreads, said it no longer retained identifying data for deleted accounts. Because the account vanished immediately after inquiries began, the response failed to undermine the connection.

Former intelligence officials told Friedman that personal conduct matters when evaluating national security risk. Former CIA officer John Sipher explained “It’s all about whether you are susceptible to a foreign service getting any leverage against you. It may not be disqualifying, but it should be looked at.”

Geressy lived in 2016 with a woman believed to be a Chinese national who briefly formed a company referencing Chinese investment at his home address. The Pentagon declined to say whether the relationship factored into clearance reviews.

The reporting also found that Geressy’s identifying information appeared in multiple adult website data breaches, including Ashley Madison and AdultFriendFinder. Cyber researchers said this did not confirm usage but acknowledged such exposure would typically trigger scrutiny.

The controversy unfolded amid a broader crackdown on press independence. The Pentagon now requires credentialed reporters to accept restrictions on publishing unauthorized information. Most outlets refused. The New York Times sued the Pentagon, arguing the policy violates the First Amendment. Posobiec accepted the terms and now holds Pentagon access.

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson has appeared on Posobiec’s program and thanked him for complying with the rules, praising him as an “incredible journalist.”

After weeks of silence, Posobiec resurfaced and said he was “finalizing my story,” asking whether Friedman, her wife, or her in-laws wished to comment.

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino

Reiners Were to Meet the Obamas before Their Grizzly Deaths

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Reiners Were to Meet the Obamas before Their Grizzly Deaths

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michelle Obama revealed Monday that she and her husband Barack were supposed to meet Carl Reiner and his wife before they were murdered by their son.

“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night — and we got the news,” Michelle Obama reportedly said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, when host Jimmy Kimmel asked how she was coping with the news of her friends’ murders.

Prosecutors are set to decide whether and how to charge the Reiners’ son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, who is being held in jail without bail. He was arrested several hours after his parents were found dead in their home in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, police said.

Representatives for the Reiner family did not respond to requests for comment, and it wasn’t clear if Nick Reiner had an attorney who could speak on his behalf. Police haven’t said anything about a motive for the killings.

Investigators believe Rob and Michele Singer Reiner died from stab wounds, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official, who was briefed on the investigation, could not publicly discuss the details and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Three months ago, Nick Reiner was photographed with his parents and siblings at the premiere of his father’s film “Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues.”

He had spoken publicly of his struggles with addiction, cycling in and out of treatment facilities with bouts of homelessness in between through his teen years. Rob and Nick Reiner explored — and seemed to improve — their relationship through the making of the 2016 film, “Being Charlie.”

Nick Reiner co-wrote and Rob Reiner directed the film about the struggles of an addicted son and a famous father. It was not autobiographical but included several elements of their lives.

“It forced us to understand ourselves better than we had,” Rob Reiner reportedly said in 2016. “I told Nick while we were making it, I said, ‘You know it doesn’t matter, whatever happens to this thing, we won already.’”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Trump Sues BBC for Deceptively Editing His Jan. 6 Speech

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Trump Sues BBC for Deceptively Editing His Jan. 6 Speech

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.

The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

It accused the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021” in order to “intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”

The BBC had broadcast an hourlong documentary — titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” — days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

The lawsuit, filed in a Florida court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices.

The BBC said it would defend the case.

“We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings,” it said in a statement.

The broadcaster apologized last month to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejected claims it had defamed him, after Trump threatened legal action.

BBC chairman Samir Shah had called it an “error of judgment,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.

The speech took place before some of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress was poised to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him.

Trump said earlier Monday that he was suing the BBC “for putting words in my mouth.”

“They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with Jan. 6 that I didn’t say, and they’re beautiful words, that I said, right?” the president said unprompted during an appearance in the Oval Office. “They’re beautiful words, talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said. They didn’t say that, but they put terrible words.”

The president’s lawsuit was filed in Florida. Deadlines to bring the case in British courts expired more than a year ago.

Legal experts have brought up potential challenges to a case in the U.S. given that the documentary was not shown in the country.

The lawsuit alleges that people in the U.S. can watch the BBC’s original content, including the “Panorama” series, which included the documentary, by using the subscription streaming platform BritBox or a virtual private network service.

The 103-year-old BBC is a national institution funded through an annual license fee of 174.50 pounds ($230) paid by every household that watches live TV or BBC content. Bound by the terms of its charter to be impartial, it typically faces especially intense scrutiny and criticism from both conservatives and liberals.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

President Trump Signs Executive Order Declaring Fentanyl a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’

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President Trump Signs Executive Order Declaring Fentanyl a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Monday declared that the synthetic opioid fentanyl is a “Weapon of Mass Destruction,” signaling he may use the drug as a pretext for a war in Latin America.

“Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,” an executive order signed by the president reads. “Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses.”

The order says that the US Secretary of War and Attorney General shall “determine whether the threats posed by illicit fentanyl and its impact on the United States warrant the provision of resources from the Department of War to the Department of Justice to aid in the enforcement of title 18 of the United States Code.”

It directs the Secretary of War to “update all directives regarding the Armed Forces’ response to chemical incidents in the homeland to include the threat of illicit fentanyl.”

The order also calls for the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Homeland Security to “identify threat networks related to fentanyl smuggling using WMD- and nonproliferation-related threat intelligence to support the full spectrum of counter-fentanyl operations.”

President Trump has previously claimed that boats the US military has bombed off the coast of Venezuela were carrying fentanyl, but the synthetic opioid isn’t produced in Venezuela and doesn’t transit through the country on its way to the US. According to federal government data, the vast majority of fentanyl comes from Mexico and is smuggled through the border in cars driven by US citizens.

Pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl is used in hospitals and medical centers in the US as a pain reliever and an anesthetic, and can end up on the street, but most cases of overdoses in the US are the result of illegally-made fentanyl.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.

 

WATCH: Brown University Shooter Still At Large as Police Enlist Public’s Help

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WATCH: Brown University Shooter Still At Large as Police Enlist Public’s Help

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Rhode Island authorities are enlisting the public’s help as they search for the lone gunman in this weekend’s shooting at Brown University, which left two people dead and nine injured.

The attack occurred Saturday in Providence, R.I., at the Ivy League school’s engineering building as students were taking final exams, authorities said. The victims included Ella Cook, a 19-year-old Brown sophomore and vice president of the Brown College Republicans club, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, who finished studies at Midlothian Highschool in Chesterfield County, Va., earlier this year.

But nearly three days after the shooting, the suspect remains at large, and Monday night, authorities turned to the public for help identifying the gunman.

At a live-streamed briefing for reporters, they displayed several video clips showing a person dressed in dark clothing with a face mask and hoodie taken before the shooting. Authorities said the suspect is believed to be “armed and dangerous.”

“We’re asking the public for assistance and identifying this individual,” Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said. “If you have any information, we are asking you to come forward.”

Providence PD asks for public’s help finding Brown University shooter on Dec. 15, 2025. Source: City of Providence Mayor Brett Smiley.

Perez said the suspect used a 9 mm handgun and fired “several” rounds during the shooting. He said a motive for the shooting wasn’t immediately clear, and he declined to say if any victims were targeted by the shooter.

“What I can tell you is that this individual definitely targeted Brown University,” Perez said. “I can also tell you that obviously it’s something that we’re looking into … if there was anything else that he was targeting … but it’s all open.”

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel has pledged to devote federal resources to the investigation, and the agency announced Monday it is offering a $50,000 reward for information about the shooter.

“While we mourn the devastating loss of the victims in those who were critically injured, the FBI and its partners are dedicated to honoring their memory through a meticulous investigation,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Ted Docks said at Monday’s briefing. “We’re renewing our call for the public’s assistance in seeking any and all information about the shooter. No amount of information is too small, or irrelevant.”

Authorities briefly detained a “person of interest” on Sunday night but said the man was released because the evidence no longer supported keeping him in custody. Authorities were forced to apologize after the name of the potential suspect was leaked to the press. Perez said authorities have developed a “new lead” based on the video evidence.

“It’s all hands on deck,” Perez said. “This is a very active and very complex investigation. We are at the 49th hour, and there’s no one who wants to put this individual in handcuffs more than us.”

Gov. Dan McKee said Monday his administration has deployed more state police officers and devoted additional resources to the investigation and sought to reassure a wary public that the suspect would be apprehended.

“Everything that is physically possible is being done,” he told reporters. “We want to see the individual who pulled the trigger on these young kids identified, apprehended and brought to justice.”

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