SALEM. N.H. — Helicopters hovered above and police converged on a storage unit in an industrial area on the Methuen/Salem border as the search for a shooting suspect intensified Thursday evening.
A large police presence was visible in the Garabedian Drive area. The road has been shut down by police.
It was not immediately clear if anyone has been taken into custody.
Police have apparently seized a small, white SUV.
Residents in Methuen and Salem, N.H., reported hearing low flying helicopters in both communities.
Earlier Thursday, police connected a shooter involved in a mass shooting at Brown University Saturday in Providence, Rhode Island to the shooting of an MIT professor in Brookline, Mass., on Monday.
MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed Monday night in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline.
Loureiro, 47, who was married, joined MIT in 2016 and was named last year to lead the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he worked to advance clean energy technology and other research. The center, one of MIT’s largest labs, had more than 250 people working across seven buildings when he took the helm. He was a professor of physics and nuclear science and engineering.
Authorities have not speculated on why he was killed.