Police Are Investigating Link Between Brown Shooting and Killing of MIT Professor

Colonel Oscar Perez (L), chief of the Providence Police Department, projects an image of a “person of interest” in the December 13 mass shooting at Brown University during a press conference at the Providence Public Safety Complex in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. A gunman remained at large after a weekend mass shooting at elite Brown University left two dead and nine wounded, with US authorities releasing new footage of a masked “person of interest” captured on surveillance cameras. The shooting took place Saturday in a building where exams were underway on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island when a man with a rifle burst in and opened fire before fleeing. (Photo by Bing Guan / AFP via Getty Images)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a connection between the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor two days later. 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 told The Associated Press on Thursday that investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual. The shooting at Brown on Saturday killed two students and wounded nine others. The attacker got away. About 50 miles north near Boston, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was fatally shot in his home Monday and died at a hospital Tuesday.