Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead

A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown university has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Providence police chief Oscar Perez said at a news conference. Mr Perez said as far as investigators know, the suspect acted alone.

Investigators believe Neves Valente is responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor who was fatally shot in his Brookline home on Monday, US attorney for Massachusetts Leah B Foley said.

Two people were killed and nine were wounded in the mass shooting on Saturday at Brown University.

the examination shifted on Thursday when authorities said they were looking into a connection between the brown mass shooting and an attack two days later near Boston that killed 47-year-old MIT professor Nuno FG Loureiro.

Brown University president Christina Paxson said Neves Valente was enrolled at Brown from the autumn of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He was admitted to the graduate school to study physics beginning in September 2000.

“He has no current affiliation with the university,” she said.

Neves Valente and Loureiro attended the same academic program at a university in Portugal between 1995 and 2000, US attorney for Massachusetts Leah B Foley said.

Prof Loureiro graduated from the physics programme at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal’s premier engineering school, in 2000, according to his MIT faculty page.

The same year, neves valente was let go from a position at the Lisbon university, according to an archive of a termination notice from the school’s then-president in February 2000.

Neves Valente had come to Brown on a student visa. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status in September 2017, Ms Foley said. It was not instantly clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017. His last known residence was in Miami.

After officials revealed the suspect’s identity, President Donald trump suspended the green card lottery programme that allowed neves Valente to stay in the United States.