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Authorities reportedly also are investigating possible ties between the Brown shooting and the fatal shooting of an MIT professor days later.

Sources say person of interest identified in attack at university and death of prominent physicist 50 miles away ...

They have not released the name.

Six days into the investigation into last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University, authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between that attack and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at MIT.

The search for the suspected shooter has entered its sixth day.

'Over the summer, radical human rights groups demanded Brown disable security cameras so Palestinian activists could raise hell under the radar. ... Did they cave? We asked. No response.'

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Authorities probing the Brown shooting also told NBC on Thursday that a person of interest in the shooting has been identified, and a warrant is out for their arrest.

The search for a person of interest is intensifying in Providence, Rhode Island as authorities release a new image of an individual they say could have relevant information to the investigation. NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reports from the scene.

Rhode Island authorities admitted on Wednesday that the Brown University gunman "could be anywhere" after five days of searching for the killer - but insisted they aren't discouraged about the slow ...