Brown University suspect found dead inside storage facility: Sources
Story by Josh Margolin, Aaron Katersky, Jack Date, Luke Barr, Katherine Faulders, Pierre Thomas
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Law enforcement sources told ABC News that the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University shooting has been found dead inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News earlier that police activity in Salem could be connected to the manhunt for the possible suspect.
Earlier Thursday, law enforcement officials said they had identified what they called a possible suspect in connection with the university shooting and issued a warrant for the individual’s arrest, multiple sources told ABC News.
The developments came hours after multiple sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News that the Brown shooting and the murder of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts, may be linked.
Brian Snyder/Reuters - PHOTO: An FBI Evidence Response Team searches the grounds outside the site of the Brown University shooting, as the manhunt continues for the gunman, in Providence, Rhode Island, December 15, 2025.
Timeline of the Brown University mass shooting and MIT professor slayingThe information about a possible connection between the two incidents was developed in the last 24 hours as detectives working on both cases compared notes, the sources said.
On Saturday afternoon, two Brown students were killed and nine others were injured in a mass shooting on the Rhode Island campus. The gunman fled the scene and has not been publicly identified.
MIT professor murder: No obvious suspects or theories, sources say
On Monday night, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was found shot at his home in the upscale Boston suburb of Brookline, officials said. Loureiro, 47, died on Tuesday at the hospital.
MIT - PHOTO: Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been identified as the man fatally shot at a home in Brookline on Dec. 15, 2025.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Pierre Thomas contributed to this report. |
