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Police are now investigating a potential link between Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT nuclear engineering professor on Monday night, multiple outlets reported on ...

A vice president of College Republicans and an aspiring neurosurgeon have been identified as the two students killed in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday. Ella Cook, of Birmingham, ...

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Surveillance video released in the hunt for the Brown University gunman shows a stocky, masked figure whose walk shifts from calm to restless and awkward — behavior a body language expert says signals ...

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 ...

Three days after the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, Dec. 13, the gunman remains at large and several private schools have announced closures. On Sunday night, the "person of interest" ...

Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island and the murder of an MIT professor in ...

The face of the man who officials believe killed two students was not visible in newly released footage, but they hoped he might still be recognized as the manhunt stretched past 48 hours. Mark ...

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was found dead in a storage facility, officials said. He was a physics student at Brown in 2000 but had no current affiliation, officials said. This live blog has now ...

Authorities are still searching for the shooter who killed two students and injured nine others at Brown University over the weekend. On Wednesday afternoon, police released new images of an ...