A warrant has been issued for the arrest of an at-large suspect in Saturday’s Brown University mass shooting, law enforcement officials announced on Thursday. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo
Authorities issued a warrant Thursday for a suspect in a Brown University mass shooting, which police believe might be connected to the shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Law enforcement has identified but has not arrested a suspect in the Brown shooting that killed two students and wounded nine others, unnamed sources told CNN, CBS News and NBC News.
No arrest has been made in the mass shooting that occurred at 4:10 p.m. EST inside the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building on the Brown campus in Providence, R.I. Investigators are looking into a possible connection with the shooting death of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro.
Loureiro, 47, was found with apparent gunshot wounds inside his home on Gibbs Street in Brookline, Mass., after the shooting was reported at 9 p.m. EST on Monday.
He was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead Tuesday morning.
Investigators are trying to determine if a rental vehicle seen at the Brown campus at the same time as the mass shooting is the same one seen near Loureiro’s home at about the same time he was shot, NBC News reported.
Brown’s campus is located about 50 miles southwest of Brookline, Mass.
Louriero was a fusion scientist and theoretical physicist who became the leader of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024.
His research included studying solar flares and other space-based activities, but he focused on fusion and supported the development of hardware that harnesses and controls energy.
Brown students Muhammad Aziz Umurzakov, 18, of Uzbekistan and Ella Cook, 19, of Birmingham, Ala., were identified as the students shot and killed at Brown.
Cook was vice president of Brown’s chapter of College Republicans and a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
Umurzakov was an aspiring medical doctor, while Cook was an accomplished pianist who was studying French and Francophone studies, CNN reported.
