Police ID suspect in Brown University shooting, probe link with MIT killing

Theology: Police have identified a suspect in last weekend’s deadly mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island and are investigating a possible connection to the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor near Boston two days later, a person familiar with the matter said.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter, did not provide further details about the identity of the suspect or why investigators think the two cases may be connected.

On Thursday night (Friday AEDT), law enforcement vehicles, including officers in SWAT gear and some police cars from Providence and Rhode Island State Police, were seen surrounding a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, about 30 kilometers north of downtown Boston. The source familiar with the investigation said police activity in Salem was related to the investigation.

The manhunt since Saturday’s shooting at a classroom building at Brown University has left students and residents of Providence, Rhode Island, “uneasy and eager” to make arrests, Mayor Brett Smiley said. Two students died and at least eight people were injured.

Two days later, 47-year-old MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was shot at his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, about 50 miles north of Brown’s campus, and died in a hospital the next day.

Earlier this week, an FBI official said authorities do not believe there is a connection between the two shootings. Loureiro was a member of the nuclear science, engineering and physics departments, as well as MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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Investigators in Providence said the suspect in the Brown University shooting fled on foot into nearby streets, prompting a search that relied heavily on residential security footage because of the lack of security cameras in and around the classroom building.