BREAKING: Brown University Shooter Found DEAD from “Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound”

The six-day manhunt for the gunman in the Brown University mass shooting over the weekend appears to be over.

Reportedly, the suspected shooter has just been found dead from a “self-inflicted gunshot wound” in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

Fox News reporter Brooke Taylor was the first to report:

#FIRSTONFOX: Sources confirm to me that the suspected shooter gas been found DEAD from self inflicted gunshot wound inside the storage facility

— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) December 19, 2025

This clip from Fox News has more:

The New York Times also confirmed the news:

The man the authorities were seeking as a person of interest in the killings of an M.I.T. professor and two students at Brown University was found dead in a storage unit in New Hampshire, according to two senior law enforcement officials who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Prior to this major development, agents were seen swarming the storage facility.

Watch this footage from the scene:

🚨 BREAKING: Agents have STORMED the storage facility in New Hampshire where the suspected Brown U shooter has a unit under his name – but have not yet entered his unit.

Per @Brooketaylortv, there is surveillance footage showing him entering, but it's unclear if he left the… pic.twitter.com/uEF9IzIhvq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2025

Authorities believe that this suspect may have been behind both the Brown University shooting and the murder of an MIT professor.

Mario Nawfal broke it down:

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING SUSPECT REPORTEDLY FOUND DEAD FROM SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND INSIDE STORAGE FACILITY

Sources confirm the suspected shooter has been found dead inside the Extra Space Storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

He died from a… https://t.co/qz9cqKQ9x3 pic.twitter.com/iQAO8jbOjd

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 19, 2025

BREAKING: BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING SUSPECT REPORTEDLY FOUND DEAD FROM SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND INSIDE STORAGE FACILITY

Sources confirm the suspected shooter has been found dead inside the Extra Space Storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The nearly week-long manhunt is over.

The suspect is believed to be responsible for both the Brown University mass shooting 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 storage unit, which was under the suspect’s name. Video showed him entering the facility, but police could not confirm he ever left.

The victims:

Brown University: Ella Cook, vice president of the Brown College Republicans, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an international student from Uzbekistan.

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MIT: Professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and one of the world’s leading fusion researchers.

The suspect’s identity and motive have not been officially released.

CNN has more details on what led investigators to this conclusion:

When authorities involved in the manhunt for the Brown University shooting suspect saw a call-out from police investigating the killing of an MIT professor, they realized a vehicle of interest in that case was just like one they were looking for.

It was the same kind of car used by suspects in both cases, but the license plates were different, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the case. A witness had provided a license plate to authorities probing the Brown University shooting who then investigated the car and its past drivers, which allowed them to identify the same vehicle of interest in the MIT professor killing.

Investigators were able to locate the car in Salem, New Hampshire, and law enforcement is currently swarming the area after a license plate reader flagged one of the plates that matched the car, two law enforcement officials told CNN.

The suspect has employed a series of countermeasures to avoid being tracked beyond swapping license plates in different cities, as he has seemingly planned ahead to avoid surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology by making himself unidentifiable, one official said.

The tactics draw parallels to the five-day manhunt for Luigi Mangione — who wore a medical mask and beanie while he was on the run — in the fatal shooting of a healthcare CEO in midtown Manhattan.

Authorities are scheduled to give a press conference very soon, during which we will hopefully hear more details.

We’ll continue to bring you further updates as they come in.