The mass shooting at Brown University and the murder of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts, could also be linked, a number of sources briefed on the investigation informed ABC Information.
The details about a attainable connection between the 2 incidents was developed within the final 24 hours as detectives engaged on each instances in contrast notes, the sources stated.
The sources additionally stated investigators consider they’re near figuring out a suspect.
An FBI Proof Response Crew searches the grounds outdoors the positioning of the Brown College capturing, because the manhunt continues for the gunman, in Windfall, Rhode Island, December 15, 2025.
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On Saturday afternoon, two Brown students were killed and 9 others had been injured in a mass capturing on the Rhode Island campus. The gunman fled the scene and has not been recognized.
The USA flag flies at half-staff as an indication of mourning for the sufferer’s of Saturday’s capturing, on the campus of Brown College, Dec. 15, 2025, in Windfall, R.I.
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On Monday night time, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was discovered shot at his residence within the upscale Boston suburb of Brookline, officers stated. Loureiro, 47, died on Tuesday on the hospital.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, has been recognized as the person fatally shot at a house in Brookline on Dec. 15, 2025.
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ABC Information’ Katherine Faulders contributed to this report.
