Police have issued an arrest warrant for the suspect in a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two people and injured nine others, according to sources close to the investigation.
Authorities are currently working to locate the suspect and the rental car believed to have been used in the crime. The suspect's identity has not been disclosed publicly.
Investigators are also exploring possible connections between the shooting at Brown and the recent murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, just two days later.
As the investigation continues into its sixth day, police are actively canvassing neighborhoods, gathering home security footage, and urging the public for information that could help apprehend the gunman.
A scheduled press conference was unexpectedly canceled, but updates are expected to be released soon.
The shooting took place during final exams in Brown University’s Barus & Holley engineering building. Victims identified include Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek-American freshman.
In response to growing public concern regarding the investigation's progress, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha expressed optimism that the suspect would be caught soon, while the FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for any information that leads to the identification and arrest of the individual responsible for the shooting.
