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The suspect in the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University who was wanted by US authorities was found dead on Friday. He is 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, according to the Providence Police Chief. According to investigators, he acted alone. Authorities found his body in a rented warehouse in New Hampshire with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the AP reported.
Investigators believe the man is responsible for both the shooting at Brown University and the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor who was shot at his home on Monday and died of his injuries in a hospital on Tuesday.
Authorities have not yet officially confirmed the connection between the two shootings.
On Monday night, Professor Nuno Loureiro, also originally from Portugal, was shot dead in his home in Brookline, near Boston. Loureiro was an expert in plasma physics and joined MIT in 2016.
This was preceded by Saturday’s attack at Brown University in the city of Providence in the northeast of the USA. According to witnesses, the gunman entered the technical faculty building during final exams, killed two students and injured nine people when he fired 40 rounds from a nine-millimeter pistol. He then left through the street entrance and the police have been searching for him ever since.
Brown University Chancellor Christina Paxson said Valente was enrolled at Brown University from fall 2000 to spring 2001. He was accepted to graduate school in physics in September 2000.
