The six-day manhunt for the gunman behind the Brown University mass shooting has concluded as authorities reported finding the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
According to two senior law enforcement officials who requested anonymity, the man authorities were seeking as a person of interest in the killings of an MIT professor and two students at Brown University was discovered deceased inside an Extra Space Storage facility. The suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Prior to this development, agents swarmed the storage unit where the body was found.
Authorities believe the suspect is responsible for both the Brown University mass shooting that occurred on Saturday — which killed two students and wounded nine — and the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his Brookline home on Monday.
Investigators had obtained a federal warrant to search the facility, which was under the suspect’s name. Video footage showed him entering the storage unit, but police could not confirm he ever left.
The suspect’s identity and motive remain undisclosed by authorities. Law enforcement officials noted that the suspect employed countermeasures to evade detection, including swapping license plates in different cities. Investigators connected the cases through a vehicle linked to both shootings — with different license plates — after a witness provided information about one of the vehicles involved in the Brown University shooting.
The tactics used by the suspect draw parallels to the five-day manhunt for Luigi Mangione, who wore a medical mask and beanie during his evasion. The suspect is believed to have planned ahead to avoid surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology by making himself unidentifiable.
This ongoing investigation marks the end of a nearly week-long manhunt that began after the shootings.