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Ending an incredibly stressful week in Providence, the Brown shooting suspect killed himself after being cornered by authorities (with a lot of help from citizens). The break came when the shooter was linked to another crime. CNN: How investigators zeroed in on the Brown University shooting suspect and linked him to the killing of an MIT professor.

+ NYT (Gift Article): A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation. “Three days after the deadly shooting at Brown University, officers received an anonymous tip that stuck out from a flood of information. It directed the authorities to a post on Reddit. ‘I’m being dead serious. The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental,’ the Reddit user posted, according to an affidavit filed by the police in Providence, R.I. That tip would later lead to a breakthrough not only in the search for the campus attacker but also the hunt for the suspect in the murder of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It also ended the dayslong manhunt that had put both the Brown and M.I.T. communities on edge.”

+ NPR: Trump suspends U.S. green card lottery after Brown University and MIT shootings. “Noem’s announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals.”