Law enforcement has identified a person of interest in connection to the Brown University mass shooting nearly 120 hours after havoc unfolded on campus.
An unidentified gunman opened fire on the Brown campus in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, and investigators have so far failed to track the attacker down.
But authorities have now identified the shadowy figure, whose face they have been attempting to find with the help of grainy surveillance footage.
A name for the person of interest has not yet been released. No one is in custody.
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, of Virginia, and Ella Cook, of Alabama, were fatally gunned down during the mass shooting at Brown on Saturday.
They were in a study session held at the Ivy League’s School of Engineering Barus and Holley Building when a gunman burst in shortly after 4pm and opened fire.
The gunman fired 40 rounds, killing two students and wounding 12 more.
This update comes just hours after a fresh link was made between Brown’s horrific shooting an the assassination of MIT researcher Nuno Loureiro.
All of the footage released by federal investigators of a ‘person of interest’ in connection to the shooting has shown his face masked or obscured
Married father-of-three Nuno F.G. Loureiro (pictured), 47, was gunned down at his home in a leafy Boston suburb at 8.30pm by an unknown shooter who is still on the loose
Two days after the Brown shooting, at around 8.30pm Monday evening, married father-of-three Loureiro was shot dead in his home in Brookline, Boston.
Loureiro’s neighbor and friend, Louise Cohen, said she discovered his body after hearing shots disturb the peace of their beautiful area on Gibbs Street.
Cohen said she was lighting a menorah candle when she heard gunshots fired. She rushed to the hallway of their building and found Loureiro lying on his back.
The professor’s heartbroken wife was also in the entry along with another neighbor, and they scrambled to dial 911. Loureiro was taken to hospital but died the next day.
Loureiro’s neighbors remembered him as a kind-hearted, ‘wonderful man’, while students flocked to the candle-lit vigil in his memory.
This comes as Brown University president Christina Paxson landed in hot water for her response to the grisly shooting, as she pinned the attack on gun reform.
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov (pictured left), the second Brown University victim killed on Saturday, has been remembered by his roommate as an aspiring neurosurgeon and ‘ball of joy’
The Brown University shooting which killed two students and the assassination of an MIT professor two days later may be connected, police have said. (Pictured: Victim Ella Cook)
The Ivy League university’s president said she was ‘deeply saddened’ by people questioning her response to the horror.
‘As time goes on, there is a natural instinct to assign responsibility for tragic events like this,’ Paxson, who reportedly made more than $3.1million in 2023, said Tuesday. ‘Anxiety here is very natural, but the shooter is responsible.’
‘Horrific gun violence took the lives of these students and hospitalized others. It’s deeply sad and tragic that schools across the country are targets of violence, Brown is no exception,’ she added.
But Paxson’s latest comments did nothing to assuage the anger of many, who once again turned their ire at the university’s leader for what they considered to be an inadequate response.
‘Kind of a bizarre quiet part out loud – You may be tempted to blame a violent terrorist or even a failed security apparatus when an innocent person is murdered… but don’t forget… it’s actually the gun’s fault,’ former GOP communications staffer Matt Whitlock wrote on X.
