Overview
- Law enforcement officials say investigators have identified a person of interest in the Brown attack and are actively seeking that individual, with some reports citing a suspect identification not yet announced publicly.
- Authorities are examining whether the Brown classroom shooting and the killing of MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro in Brookline two days later are connected after earlier saying no link was evident.
- Providence police released enhanced footage of a masked man believed to be the shooter and separate images of another individual seen nearby whom detectives want to question.
- Chief Oscar Perez said physical and DNA evidence was recovered at Brown’s Barus & Holley building, though limited cameras in the older facility and surrounding area have complicated the investigation.
- Two Brown students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, were killed and nine others wounded; no arrest or motive has been disclosed as the search enters its sixth day.