A suspect in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine others wounded has been identified and a warrant is out for his arrest after an ineffectual six-day manhunt, sources tell The Post.
The perpetrator, whom authorities have not publicly named, managed to elude authorities for nearly a week after he opened fire inside a classroom and then escaped into the surrounding streets of Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday.
Multiple grainy surveillance images of the possible suspect were released by authorities amid the frenzied search, but details were slow in coming even after several light-on-info press conferences.
Investigators are probing potential ties between the school shooting and the slaying of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Lourerio two days later, sources told The Post. The elite colleges are less than 50 miles apart.
For days, cops struggled to identify the masked suspect or obtain a single clear image of the gunman’s face.
“He could be anywhere,” Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez admitted on Wednesday. “We still don’t know who the person is or where he is.”
The university has over 1,200 security cameras scattered around its 145-acre campus, but none were installed in the section of the Barus & Holley building where the shooting took place.
Campus security and local cops faced growing criticism in the days following the slayings as they came up empty day after day in their search for a suspect.
Killed in the attack were students Ella Cook, 19, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, an Uzbek American freshman.
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