The man suspected of committing the mass shooting at Brown University, and killing an MIT nuclear science professor, was found dead in a storage locker in New Hampshire.
48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, a former Brown University student and Portuguese national, apparently committed suicide.
Here’s the news via the New York Post:
Providence police have identified a former Brown University student and Portuguese national, Claudio Neves Valente, as the suspect in Saturday’s shooting at the Ivy League school — who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a nearly weeklong manhunt.
Valente, a 48-year-old former Physics student with a Miami address, was found dead with a satchel and two firearms inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility, where authorities carried out a search warrant around 9 p.m. on Thursday.
Investigators also revealed he studied in Libson with murdered MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Lourerio, 47. The professor was killed on Monday in his $1.4 million townhouse in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts and cops are probing whether he is a suspect.
Police Chief Oscar Perez made the announcement at a press conference Thursday evening, five full days into the department’s frantic search for the suspected gunman.
The suspect entered the Rhode Island Ivy League University’s Barus & Holley building and opened fire inside a lecture hall, killing students Ella Cook, 19, a sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, an Uzbek American freshman.
Nine others were wounded in the barrage of bullets, with six remaining in the hospital Wednesday.