UPDATE: Police say the suspect is dead by suicide. We'll report whatever we can about this insane story as details become available.
Original story:
The crimes happened 50 miles away from one another and now authorities say they could be linked.
We gave you both of these stories:
And now the crimes are suspected by authorities to be connected.
Police are investigating possible ties between Saturday's shooting at Brown University and Monday's slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Target 12 investigators have learned.
Senior law enforcement officials tell Target 12 that federal, state and local authorities are now examining a potential connection between the two crimes. Multiple people familiar with the investigation said they have discovered evidence showing the two may be linked.
It also looks like they've identified a suspect in the Brown shooting:
A little background if you haven't kept up with these stories:
The violence began around 4 p.m. on Saturday, when an unidentified gunman shot and killed two students — Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov — and injured nine others after opening fire inside a Brown engineering building where students were studying for an exam.
Two days later, an unidentified gunman shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro multiple times inside his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, about 50 miles north of Providence. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday.
What in the world is going on??
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