Multiple law enforcement agencies converged on a storage facility in southern New Hampshire on Thursday evening in the ongoing multi-state manhunt for a suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Earlier in the day, police identified a person they believe is connected to both shootings, sources told 5 Investigates. A warrant was issued for the individual’s arrest, multiple sources told ABC News. The person’s name was not publicly released.Providence police, U.S. Marshals, New Hampshire State Police, K-9 teams and FBI were at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, just over the Massachusetts border. Some members of law enforcement were also seen entering the facility. Area police departments said they were mobilizing resources to assist in Salem. It was not immediately clear what information brought investigators to the Salem facility. From Sky 5, a man was seen being led from the building, but he was not taken into custody. The information about a possible connection between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Monday night’s shooting of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts, was developed as detectives working on both cases compared notes, sources told ABC News.Video: Authorities obtain warrant for the arrest of a suspect in Brown, MIT professor shootings”We don’t know the motive of either one of these shootings, but from an investigative standpoint, what could possibly match? Shell casings from the scene, he left those at MIT, it could also be from surveillance cameras in and around the professor’s house or on the campus,” former FBI agent Brad Garrett said.Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was shot Monday night at his home on Gibbs Street at about 9 p.m. He was taken to an area hospital with gunshot wounds and died the next morning, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office.Loureiro was an MIT faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Sources: Active manhunt underway for person of interest in Brown, MIT professor shootingsOn Saturday, two Brown University students were killed and nine others wounded when a gunman opened fire in the Barus & Holley engineering building, where exams were scheduled.The two students killed in the shooting were identified as Ella Cook, a Birmingham, Alabama, native and leader of the College Republicans at Brown, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman who was studying to become a doctor.As of Thursday afternoon, six of those wounded were in stable condition at Rhode Island Hospital and three had been discharged, ABC News reported.The gunman in both slayings remains at large.In the days since the Brown shooting, investigators have released a series of images from area security cameras of a person of interest. They describe the person as wearing a two-tone coat and about 5 feet 8 inches tall. In all the images, however, the person’s face is partially covered by a mask and hair is covered by a winter hat. The person spent hours in the neighborhood around the university on Saturday.”This guy had a real comfort level to walk around as much as he walked around and felt confident that he was just another person walking around Brown University until he decided at one point that he was going to commit a shooting,” Garrett said.In Brookline, Loureiro’s neighbors reported hearing multiple gunshots Monday night and others reported seeing a dark-colored sedan driving away from the scene. “We heard a really loud noise I thought it sounded like a crashing noise, but my husband heard it and he said it sounded like gunshots,” neighbor Anne Greenwald said.No images of a suspected gunman or vehicle in that case have been released to the public. Loureiro, who grew up in Portugal and joined MIT in 2016, was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aimed to advance clean energy technology and other research.Brookline is about 50 miles north of Providence.Anyone with information about the case is asked to submit tips to investigators through the FBI’s website or by calling 401-272-3121. A reward of up to $50,000 is offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.
BROOKLINE, Mass. —
Multiple law enforcement agencies converged on a storage facility in southern New Hampshire on Thursday evening in the ongoing multi-state manhunt for a suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Earlier in the day, police identified a person they believe is connected to both shootings, sources told 5 Investigates. A warrant was issued for the individual’s arrest, multiple sources told ABC News. The person’s name was not publicly released.
Providence police, U.S. Marshals, New Hampshire State Police, K-9 teams and FBI were at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, just over the Massachusetts border. Some members of law enforcement were also seen entering the facility. Area police departments said they were mobilizing resources to assist in Salem.
It was not immediately clear what information brought investigators to the Salem facility. From Sky 5, a man was seen being led from the building, but he was not taken into custody.
The information about a possible connection between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Monday night’s shooting of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts, was developed as detectives working on both cases compared notes, sources told ABC News.
Video: Authorities obtain warrant for the arrest of a suspect in Brown, MIT professor shootings
“We don’t know the motive of either one of these shootings, but from an investigative standpoint, what could possibly match? Shell casings from the scene, he left those at MIT, it could also be from surveillance cameras in and around the professor’s house or on the campus,” former FBI agent Brad Garrett said.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was shot Monday night at his home on Gibbs Street at about 9 p.m. He was taken to an area hospital with gunshot wounds and died the next morning, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office.
Loureiro was an MIT faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Sources: Active manhunt underway for person of interest in Brown, MIT professor shootings
On Saturday, two Brown University students were killed and nine others wounded when a gunman opened fire in the Barus & Holley engineering building, where exams were scheduled.
The two students killed in the shooting were identified as Ella Cook, a Birmingham, Alabama, native and leader of the College Republicans at Brown, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman who was studying to become a doctor.
As of Thursday afternoon, six of those wounded were in stable condition at Rhode Island Hospital and three had been discharged, ABC News reported.
The gunman in both slayings remains at large.
In the days since the Brown shooting, investigators have released a series of images from area security cameras of a person of interest. They describe the person as wearing a two-tone coat and about 5 feet 8 inches tall. In all the images, however, the person’s face is partially covered by a mask and hair is covered by a winter hat. The person spent hours in the neighborhood around the university on Saturday.
“This guy had a real comfort level to walk around as much as he walked around and felt confident that he was just another person walking around Brown University until he decided at one point that he was going to commit a shooting,” Garrett said.
In Brookline, Loureiro’s neighbors reported hearing multiple gunshots Monday night and others reported seeing a dark-colored sedan driving away from the scene.
“We heard a really loud noise I thought it sounded like a crashing noise, but my husband heard it and he said it sounded like gunshots,” neighbor Anne Greenwald said.
No images of a suspected gunman or vehicle in that case have been released to the public.
Loureiro, who grew up in Portugal and joined MIT in 2016, was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aimed to advance clean energy technology and other research.
Brookline is about 50 miles north of Providence.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to submit tips to investigators through the FBI’s website or by calling 401-272-3121. A reward of up to $50,000 is offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.