Evidence shows deadly Brown, MIT shootings may be linked, sources say: report

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Investigators successful New England person recovered grounds perchance linking deadly shootings astatine 2 high-profile universities successful the area, according to a section report.

Earlier this week, FBI Boston's peculiar cause successful complaint Ted Docks told reporters that investigators were sharing quality regarding some cases but had not travel up with a wide tie.

However, connected Thursday, the determination CBS affiliate WPRI-TV reported that elder instrumentality enforcement sources said they person discovered grounds of a connection. It's unclear what that grounds is.

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Split representation showing Brown University victims Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, alongside MIT prof Nuno Loureiro, who was killed successful a abstracted shooting. (Instagram/elinacoutlakis/GoFundMe/Jake Belcher for MIT)

Unverified reports successful some Providence, Rhode Island, and Brookline, Massachusetts, person described Nissan Sentras astatine the scene, though they were described arsenic having licence plates from antithetic states.

A masked gunman barged into a lecture hallway astatine Brown University successful Providence astir 4 p.m. Saturday and killed 2 students, injuring 9 more. Authorities said they recovered 9mm slug casings from the scene.

A divided representation showing aggregate inactive frames from the surveillance video taken adjacent Brown University of a idiosyncratic of involvement earlier and aft a schoolhouse shooting Saturday. (FBI Boston)

He was past seen Saturday a fewer minutes aboriginal connected surveillance video successful the vicinity eastbound of Brown's campus.

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Then astir 8:30 p.m. Monday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology prof Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, was discovered with aggregate gunshot wounds successful his flat successful Brookline, a abbreviated thrust from campus. He was pronounced dormant astatine a infirmary the pursuing morning.

Interior presumption of Barus and Holley Room 166. connected the field of Brown University successful Providence, R.I. On Saturday, Dec. 13, astir 4p.m., a masked antheral with a weapon entered a reappraisal league successful Barus & Holley Room 166 for ECON 0110: "Principles of Economics," shouted thing indiscernible and opened fire. (Kenna Lee/The Brown Daily Herald)

Loureiro was a renowned atomic physicist, manager of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a recipient of a statesmanlike grant honoring his probe from the White House earlier this year.

The Brookline flat gathering wherever MIT prof Nuno F. G. Loureiro was changeable earlier this week is seen Thursday greeting arsenic investigators proceed to hunt for leads successful the homicide case. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)

Authorities person not described what benignant of limb was utilized to termination Loureiro.

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The shooting near 2 students dead, identified arsenic Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia, and 9 injured. Six of the survivors remained hospitalized arsenic of Thursday afternoon. One is successful captious but unchangeable condition, the others were stable.

Fox News' Sandy Ibrahim contributed to this report.