Authorities searching for car they believe Brown shooting suspect rented, sources say
Update: Police say the suspect in the Brown University shooting was found dead Thursday night in Salem, New Hampshire. Follow latest updates here. Our previous story is below.
Police forces are conducting an investigation possible connections Between the mass shooting at Brown University and the targeted killing of one person MIT professor two days later, sources told CBS News.
Investigators are searching for a suspect in the mass shooting and a car he is believed to have rented, multiple law enforcement sources said. Authorities believe the rented vehicle is the same make and model as a car spotted near the MIT professor’s apartment.
Meanwhile, two law enforcement sources told CBS News that an arrest warrant has been issued for a suspect in the Brown case.
Here’s what we know:
Nuno LoureiroThe man, who taught plasma physics at MIT and directed the Center for Plasma Science and Fusion, was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday, 2017. He died the next day in a nearby hospital. Police to research His death was ruled a homicide.
two days ago, two students were killed Nine more people were injured Saturday afternoon when a gunman opened fire in a classroom at Brown University’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, authorities said. The attack occurred in the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building during final exams.
Immediately after the shooting, police said a male suspect managed to escape from the building. In the hours and days that followed, police and the FBI released images and videos of the man they identified as the suspect wandering around a nearby neighborhood several hours before the first 911 calls reporting the attack came in.
The person in the images was wearing black clothes and a face mask. None of the images portrayed him clearly.
A. Video released on TuesdayAlthough blurry, it was the clearest image of the person involved yet released. The image appeared to be digitally enhanced.
John Mulvaney, a 26-year FBI veteran and managing director of CBIZ Forensix Consulting Group. he told CBS News Boston The footage showed the person of interest “scouting the neighborhood.”
A $50,000 reward was offered to the FBI for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the attack.
Two students lost their lives in the conflict They were identified as Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and Uzbek American freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.
“They were both wonderful and loved as members of our campus community, but they were loved even more by their friends and family,” Brown’s president, Christina H. Paxson, wrote in a letter to the university community on Tuesday. “Our hearts continue to go out to them in their deep pain.”
Suspect identified in deadly Brown University shooting
