"On Saturday, a man killed two Brown University students, injuring nine others, before traveling to Brookline on Monday to fatally kill an MIT professor. On Thursday, law enforcement officials found him dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire. Since then, AP reported that police said information from a tipster who had a strange encounter with the man outside Brown University was key to their finding the suspect."
"That information was simply a description of a vehicle: a gray Nissan. That one detail led police to search the network of more than 70 street cameras operated around the city by the technology company Flock Safety for video of the Nissan Sentra sedan with Florida plates. "That's how Flock was designed and built," said Josh Thomas, Chief Communications Officer of Flock Safety. "It was to help in exactly like situations like this." Investigators were able to access the Flock Safety system"
Investigators used the Flock Safety camera network, combining eyewitness descriptions and license plate data, to identify the shooter linked to killings at Brown University and MIT. A tip describing a gray Nissan led police to search more than 70 Flock street cameras for a Nissan Sentra with Florida plates. Law enforcement credited the tip for breaking the case, and the suspect was later found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility. Supporters emphasize the system's effectiveness for rapid investigations, while many residents and advocates raise privacy concerns and urge legislative guardrails on expanding surveillance.
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