The Brown University shooting suspect, who killed two and injured nine people last week, was found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire, officials said.
The 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national identified as the suspect in the shooting, is also accused of killing an MIT professor, authorities said. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said, “The suspect who took his life tonight was himself an alumnus of the institute two decades ago.”
University President Christina Paxson confirmed that the suspect had attended Brown University from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 as a graduate student in physics. “He has no current affiliation with the university," she said.
Investigators also found links of the suspect connected to an earlier killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was fatally shot in Boston on Monday, US Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said.
The hunt continued for one week since the shooting took place when students were appearing for the final semester exams. According to police officials, the main suspect was identified by another person who was caught two days after the shooting incident took place.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, after solving the case, said, “When you crack it, you crack it. That person led us to the car and led us to the name.” The authorities are still searching for the cause that led to the fatal shooting incident, saying there are still “a lot of unknowns” regarding motive, Neronha said.
“We don’t know why now, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom,” he said.
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