A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead on Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Colonel Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief.
Investigators believe he was responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday, then killing MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro two days later at his home in the Boston suburbs, nearly 80km from Providence. Perez said as far as investigators knew, Neves Valente acted alone.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said Neves Valente was enrolled there as a graduate student studying physics from autumn 2000 to spring 2001.
“He has no current affiliation with the university,” she said.
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