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Car in Salem, NH is what led authorities to investigate link between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor
From CNN's John Miller and Emma Tucker
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.