Sources: Police investigate link between Brown shooting, killing of MIT professor

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. Authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual."

"The attacker at Brown on Saturday killed two students and wounded nine others in a classroom in the school's engineering building before getting away. About 50 miles north, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was gunned down in his home Monday night in the Boston suburb of Brookline. The 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist died at a hospital the next day. The FBI previously said it knew of no links between the cases."

"It's been nearly a week since the shooting at Brown. There have been other high-profile attacks in which it took days or longer to make an arrest or find those responsible, including in the brazen New York City sidewalk killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO last year, which took five days. But frustration is mounting in Providence that the person behind the attack managed to get away and that a clear image of their face has yet to emerge."

Authorities are investigating a potential link between a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline. Investigators have identified a person of interest and are actively seeking that individual. The Brown attacker killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building classroom before fleeing. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot in his home and died the next day. The FBI previously reported no known link between the incidents. Investigators have canvassed the area for evidence, requested public phone and security footage from the week before the Brown attack, and released several videos from the hours leading up to the shooting. Frustration is growing in Providence over the lack of an arrest and a clear image of the suspect.

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