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Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead in New Hampshire Warehouse

Prosecutors also link the former Brown physics student to the killing of an MIT professor.

Overview

  • Providence police said the 48-year-old Portuguese national died by apparent suicide, and investigators recovered two firearms and evidence consistent with the Brown crime scene.
  • Authorities identified him as a onetime Brown physics student and described him as a lone attacker, with the motive still unknown.
  • U.S. prosecutors allege he also murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, earlier in the week.
  • Video from a rented vehicle and public tips guided investigators to his identity and movements, leading to the warehouse in New Hampshire.
  • The shooting in Brown’s Barus & Holley building killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine others, and the U.S. government has suspended the Green Card lottery following the case.