Suspect in Brown University, MIT professor shootings found dead
UPDATE: 'We got him': Police ID dead suspect in Brown University, MIT professor shootings
A suspect in the deadly Brown University mass shooting on Saturday night and the killing of an MIT professor days later in Brookline was found dead on Thursday night, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office confirmed.
The person was found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, according to WCVB and The New York Times .
The U.S. Attorney's office in Massachusetts, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed that the person suspected of opening fire at Brown is the same person suspected in the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his apartment complex in Brookline Monday night. Officials previously denied that the two incidents were related.
Earlier in the night, multiple news outlets reported that Providence police were searching for a suspect in the deadly Brown University mass shooting from Dec. 13 in Southern New Hampshire.
Around 8 p.m. Thursday, Methuen police shared a community alert stating that local, state and federal law enforcement were working to locate a suspect in a recent death near the city's border with Salem, New Hampshire, but that there was no imminent risk to the city residents.
Earlier in the day, several local and national news stations and newspapers reported that law enforcement sources had informed them that the person of interest in the Brown University shooting that investigators have released numerous photos and videos of over the last few days had been identified.
Around 5 p.m., multiple local news stations reported that an arrest warrant had been issued in connection with the Dec. 13 shooting in Rhode Island.
On Thursday, many news outlets also reported police sources telling them that, in the last day, law enforcement began investigating a connection between the shooting at Brown and Loureiro's killing.
The evidence in the two cases that led investigators to link them was that a vehicle of the same make and model was spotted at both crime scenes, CNN reported . The vehicles had different license plates.
A vehicle of the same make and model was reportedly recovered by police in Salem, New Hampshire, Thursday night, CNN reported. Police were reportedly drawn to the town after a license plate reader registered one of the sets of plates associated with the cases.
Providence police officials declined to confirm whether the person of interest in the Brown University mass shooting had been identified Thursday afternoon.
FBI Boston and Norfolk County District Attorney officials declined to comment on whether police were investigating a link between the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of MIT physics professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro earlier on Thursday.
Gunfire erupted on the first floor of Brown's Barus and Holley engineering and physics building around 4 p.m. on Dec. 13 during an economics class. The shooting left sophomore Ella Cook and first-year student Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov dead and nine other students injured.
As of Wednesday afternoon, one of the injured students remained in critical but stable condition at Rhode Island Hospital, officials said. Five more were in stable condition at the hospital, and three had been discharged.
Loureiro, 47, was shot in the apartment complex he lived in on Gibbs Street in Brookline on Monday night, the Norfolk County District Attorney's office said previously. Brookline police responded to a report of gunshots at the building around 8:30 p.m. and found the professor with gunshot wounds.
First responders took Loureiro to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, the district attorney's office said. He was declared dead at the hospital Tuesday morning.
Loureiro was a professor of nuclear science and engineering and the director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, according to the university's website .
Brown University Shooting, Dec. 13, 2025
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