PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Authorities in New England have pinpointed a suspect in the shooting incident at Brown University and are investigating potential connections to the murder of a distinguished nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located approximately 50 miles away, as per information obtained by Fox News.
The suspect is currently on the run.
Earlier this week, Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of FBI Boston, informed the media that while investigators are exchanging intelligence between the two cases, they have yet to uncover a definitive link.
Reports from both Providence, Rhode Island, and Brookline, Massachusetts, have mentioned the presence of Nissan Sentras at the respective crime scenes, although the vehicles reportedly had license plates from different states.
The investigation involves the victims from Brown University, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was fatally shot in a separate incident. These individuals are depicted in a composite image sourced from social media and fundraising platforms.
On Thursday, WPRI-TV, a regional CBS affiliate, reported that senior law enforcement officials have found evidence suggesting a connection between the cases. However, the specifics of this evidence remain undisclosed.
A masked gunman barged into a lecture hall at Brown University in Providence around 4 p.m. Saturday and killed two students, injuring nine more. Authorities said they recovered 9mm bullet casings from the scene.
A split image showing multiple still frames from the surveillance video taken near Brown University of a person of interest before and after a school shooting Saturday. (FBI Boston)
He was last seen Saturday a few minutes later on surveillance video in the neighborhood east of Brown’s campus.
Then around 8:30 p.m. Monday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds in his apartment in Brookline, a short drive from campus. He was pronounced dead at a hospital the following morning.
Interior view of Barus and Holley Room 166 on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I. On Saturday, Dec. 13, around 4p.m., a masked man with a gun entered a review session in Barus & Holley Room 166 for ECON 0110: “Principles of Economics,” shouted something indiscernible and opened fire. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Daily Herald)
Loureiro was a renowned nuclear physicist, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a recipient of a presidential award honoring his research from the White House earlier this year.
The Brookline apartment building where MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro was shot earlier this week is seen Thursday morning as investigators continue to search for leads in the homicide case. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
Authorities have not described what kind of weapon was used to kill Loureiro.
The shooting left two students dead, identified as Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia, and nine injured. Six of the survivors remained hospitalized as of Thursday afternoon. One is in critical but stable condition, the others were stable.
