Authorities know who person of interest is in Brown University shooting; report reveals what link may be to murder of MIT professor

Significant developments have been revealed on Thursday concerning a fatal weekend shooting.

Authorities have identified the name of the person of interest in the Brown University murder, but he has not yet been captured.

Authorities are also investigating a possible connection between the Brown University shooting and the homicide of MIT Nuclear Science Professor Nuno Loureiro in Brookline on Monday night.

According to The New York Times, investigators are searching for the individual and a car that the person is believed to have rented, which is the same make and model of a car identified in connection with the shooting of the M.I.T. professor.

On Saturday, at approximately 4:00 p.m., a gunman entered the Barus & Holley engineering building at Brown University during final exams and opened fire in a classroom, killing two students—Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia —and wounding nine others. The shooter escaped, triggering an ongoing manhunt now in its sixth day.

Authorities had released enhanced surveillance videos and a timeline mapping the person of interest’s movements for hours before the attack, describing him as about 5’8″ with a stocky build, wearing a mask, dark two-tone jacket, and hat. No suspect has been arrested, but police are pursuing leads from hundreds of tips, including potential connections to the unrelated fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in Brookline on December 15. The FBI offers up to $50,000 for information leading to the gunman’s capture.

Brown University canceled remaining exams, and the campus remains on edge with memorials growing.