The suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend is dead, officials said, as investigators said he also killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days after the rampage at Brown.
Officials said the gunman, identified as Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, attended Brown University more than two decades ago but his motive remains a mystery. US Attorney Leah Foley in Boston said Valente, 48, was deceased. He had been a Ph D student in physics who was familiar with the building where the shooting took place, officials said. Providence police Chief Oscar Perez and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, speaking at a Press conference, said that Valente took his own life.
Perez said a tip from a person who confronted Valente inside a bathroom on Brown’s campus led police to a car he had rented from an agency in Massachusetts. There, police were able to obtain store footage of Valente in which he was seen wearing the same clothing seen in footage from the Brown University shooting, and find his name on the rental agreement.
Ted Docks, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the Boston office, said that the suspect’s body was found in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire.
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