Evidence shows deadly Brown, MIT shootings may be linked, sources say: report

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Investigators in New England have found evidence potentially linking deadly shootings at two high-profile universities in the area, according to a local report.

Earlier this week, FBI Boston’s special agent in charge Ted Docks told reporters that investigators were sharing intelligence regarding both cases but had not come up with a clear tie.

However, on Thursday, the regional CBS affiliate WPRI-TV reported that senior law enforcement sources said they have discovered evidence of a connection. It’s unclear what that evidence is.

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Unverified reports in both Providence, Rhode Island, and Brookline, Massachusetts, have described Nissan Sentras at the scene, although they were described as having license plates from different states.

A masked gunman barged into a lecture hall at Brown University in Providence around 4 p.m. Saturday and killed two students, injuring nine more. Authorities said they recovered 9mm bullet casings from the scene.

A split image showing multiple still frames from the surveillance video taken near Brown University of a person of interest

He was last seen Saturday a few minutes later on surveillance video in the neighborhood east of Brown’s campus.

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Then around 8:30 p.m. Monday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds in his apartment in Brookline, a short drive from campus. He was pronounced dead at a hospital the following morning.

Loureiro was a renowned nuclear physicist, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a recipient of a presidential award honoring his research from the White House earlier this year.

Brookline apartment building where MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot

Authorities have not described what kind of weapon was used to kill Loureiro.

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The shooting left two students dead, identified as Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia, and nine injured. Six of the survivors remained hospitalized as of Thursday afternoon. One is in critical but stable condition, the others were stable.

Fox News’ Sandy Ibrahim contributed to this report.