The suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend is dead, a US attorney said, as authorities investigate whether the same person killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days after the rampage at Brown.
Two other federal officials also confirmed the suspected Brown shooter was dead. It is believed that his body was discovered in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, about 30km north of downtown Boston, where a large contingent of law enforcement officers descended Thursday night in an action related to the Brown University investigation.
One Department of Justice official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to discuss the matter, said the suspected shooter had killed himself.
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The sources did not provide more details on the identification of the suspect or why investigators think the two cases may be linked. But they said that federal prosecutors in Massachusetts, where MIT is located, had drafted charges against an individual they are seeking in the investigation.
The manhunt since Saturday’s shooting inside a classroom building at Brown University has left students and residents of Providence, Rhode Island, “restless and eager” for an arrest, said Mayor Brett Smiley. Two students at the Ivy League school were killed and at least eight were wounded.
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On Monday, MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, was fatally shot in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, some 80km north of Brown’s campus.