According to Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr., the suspect in the Brown University shooting was found dead after taking his own life.
The suspect, identified as Claudio Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire. With Valente was a satchel, two firearms and evidence matching the crime scene. Motive has not yet been determined.
Valente’s last known residence was in Miami.
Valente was enrolled at Brown from September 2000 to April 2001, where he only took physics classes. The majority of those classes would have been at the building where the shooting occurred.
Authorities are also looking into a potential connection to the killing of an MIT professor at his Massachusetts home.
A witness had provided a license plate to authorities probing the Brown University shooting, who then investigated the car and its past drivers. This allowed them to identify the same vehicle of interest in the MIT professor killing.
Valente switched license plates on the rental car he was using, making it more difficult to find the vehicle. A New Hampshire license plate reader eventually flagged one of the plates matched to the car.