What We Know About the Suspect in the Brown and M.I.T. Killings NYT | Top Stories By: Pooja Salhotra 19 December 2025 at 14:25 Officials identified a man from Portugal as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University and the killing of an M.I.T. professor. The police said on Thursday he died from a self-inflicted gunshot. © Christopher Capozziello for The New York TimesLaw enforcement officers outside a storage facility on Hampshire Road in Salem, N.H., on Thursday night.