Investigators are looking into whether the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend is connected to the fatal shooting of an MIT professor in Massachusetts two days later.
CBS News reported that an arrest warrant has been issued for the suspect in the Brown shooting, and that law enforcement is searching for the person of interest. Authorities have not publicly identified a suspect in either case.
The arrest warrant has been made for an individual they identified to have rented a car, according to The New York Times. The rented vehicle is the same make and model of a car identified in connection with the shooting of the MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Brookline is about 45 miles from Brown University.
Two students were killed and nine others were wounded Saturday when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom in Brown’s Barus & Holley engineering building in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.
MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was shot Monday at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and died the next day. Police are investigating his death as a homicide.
The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an identification, arrest and conviction in the Brown case.
The New York Times reported that it is unusual for manhunts in high-profile attacks to stretch on, though it has happened.
“Three days passed before the FBI released photos of the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013, and during the ensuing search three police officers were wounded, two of them fatally,” wrote the Times. “It took five days to capture Luigi Mangione, now accused of killing the CEO of United Healthcare one year ago.”