'Older' Brown building where shooting happened had no cameras as president’s even older home appears equipped

The portion of the Brown University academic building where a gunman opened fire and killed two students didn't have surveillance cameras because of the structure's age, officials said Tuesday despite the official residence of the school president being older and appearing to be equipped with video monitoring. 

Officials were questioned about the lack of sufficient security cameras in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building despite Brown's Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said there was no clear video of the gunman from inside the engineering building where the shooting took place despite the university being equipped with 1,200 security cameras across campus. 

In a statement to Fox News Digital, the university said its security cameras are deployed "in high-traffic areas, such as streets, sidewalks and campus walkways with significant foot traffic; and in academic and administrative buildings with an emphasis on entry and exit points. Brown’s security cameras do not extend to every hallway, classroom, laboratory and office across the 250+ buildings on campus."

"For security reasons, it is not prudent to share where cameras are and are not relative to individual buildings and locations," the school said, noting that it has and will continue to cooperate fully with the law enforcement agencies conducting this investigation. 

"We have and will continue to provide investigators with any and all security camera footage they need, including from the engineering complex of three connected buildings that includes Barus & Holley, the Engineering Research Center and Prince Lab," the statement continued. 

The Barus & Holley building was built in 1965. The seven-story, 220,000 square-foot structure houses the School of Engineering and the physics department. 

It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices, 15 classrooms, 29 laboratory classrooms and 3 lecture halls, according to the university's website. 

The Elizabeth Hazard Sturges House, the school president's official residence, is a Gregorian Revival-style house that was built in 1922 and sold to the university in 1947, according to the university states that it devotes 1% of the construction budget of all new buildings and major renovations to the commission of artwork for the building or grounds as part of its "Percent-for-Art" program.