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Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead in New Hampshire Storage Unit

Authorities say forensic evidence links the suspect to both crime scenes as they probe motive.

Overview

  • Officials identified the deceased as a 48-year-old Portuguese former Brown physics student who had recently lived in Miami.
  • Police say he died by suicide, with his body found alongside two firearms and items matching evidence from the Providence scene.
  • The Brown attack killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine others, with six still hospitalized, according to the university.
  • Prosecutors in Massachusetts have tied the same suspect to the killing of MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro at his Brookline home.
  • Investigators traced him through surveillance of a rental car, bank records and tips, while the U.S. suspended the Diversity Visa lottery, citing his reported entry via the program.