BREAKING: Police Focused on New Suspect in Brown Mass Shooting - Warrant Issued for Arrest

BREAKING: Police Focused on New Suspect in Brown Mass Shooting - Warrant Issued for Arrest

GoLocal has learned that a person of interest has been named in the case of the mass shooting at Brown University. Two students died, and nine others were injured during the shooting, which took place at Barus & Howley Hall on the Brown campus located on Hope Street.

 

The law enforcement said that the process of identifying this individual began to take final form on Thursday morning. An arrest warrant has been issued.

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Early Sunday morning, a man was detained at a Coventry motel — GoLocal was first to report that development. 

 

But by Sunday evening, that lead unraveled, and by Sunday. night, GoLocal unveiled that the man was being released.

 

It has been five days since the mass shooting.

 

MIT Connection

According to sources, the POI is also believed to be involved in the death of an MIT professor.

 

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist at MIT. He was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk district attorney's office said.

 

If the POI is in fact responsible for both crimes, the combined number of deaths would equal that of the Boston Marathon bombing in April of 2013.

 

That case was prosecuted federally.