The manhunt for the suspect behind last weekend’s Brown University mass shooting has concluded after authorities discovered the individual dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
The suspect is believed responsible for both the Brown University incident that killed two students and wounded nine, as well as the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his Brookline home on Monday. The victims were Ella Cook, vice president of the Brown College Republicans, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an international student from Uzbekistan.
Law enforcement officials confirmed investigators obtained a federal warrant to search the storage unit under the suspect’s name after identifying it through license plate data. Video evidence showed the suspect entering the facility, though police were unable to confirm he had exited.
The suspect employed countermeasures to evade identification, including swapping license plates across cities and avoiding surveillance technology. Investigators linked the suspect to both crimes through a vehicle with differing license plates in two separate jurisdictions. These tactics draw parallels to the five-day manhunt for Luigi Mangione, who wore medical masks and beanies while evading capture following his investigation into the fatal shooting of a healthcare executive in midtown Manhattan.
The nearly six-day search concluded after law enforcement tracked the suspect to the storage facility using license plate reader technology.