Brown and MIT manhunt live updates as sources say shootings may be linked
Manhunt ongoing in multiple states for suspect in Brown shooting, sources say
The ongoing, active manhunt for the Brown University shooting suspect is now taking place in multiple states, law enforcement sources tell CBS News.
Search on for suspect, rented vehicle in Brown University shooting, sources say
Investigators are searching for a suspect in the Brown University shooting and a car that the person is believed to have rented, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
Authorities believe the rented vehicle is the same make and model of a car that was also detected in the vicinity of the apartment of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was shot at his residence on Monday and died in a hospital the following day, the sources said.
Murdered MIT professor remembered as a “brilliant scientist”
Nuno Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal, taught plasma physics at MIT and led its Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
The 47-year-old was found shot Monday night at his apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a hospital the following day.
“Nuno was not only a brilliant scientist, he was a brilliant person,” colleague Dennis Whyte said in an obituary published Tuesday by MIT. “He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner. His loss is immeasurable to our community at the PSFC, NSE and MIT, and around the entire fusion and plasma research world.”
Authorities are investigating his death as a homicide.
Brown University mourning 2 “brilliant and beloved” students
The two students killed in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, are being remembered as “brilliant and beloved — as members of our campus community, but even more by their friends and families,” Brown’s president, Christina H. Paxson, wrote in a letter to the university community.
Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, was vice president of Brown’s College Republicans.
“Ella was a devoted Christian and a committed conservative who represented the very best of Alabama,” Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth said in a post on X. “A bright future was ended much too soon.”
Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman, was studying biochemistry and neuroscience. His sister, Samira Umurzokova, said he was helping a friend study for an economics final when he was shot.
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“It’s just heartbreaking for the community, we’re all really in shock right now,” student Jack Cox told CBS News Boston.
