Man suspected in Brown U shooting, MIT professor’s killing found dead

Claudio Neves Valente a erstwhile Brown pupil and Portuguese national, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A man, who is suspected of sidesplitting 2 and wounding respective others successful a Brown University wide shooting successful the US authorities of Rhode Island, and of sidesplitting a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, has been recovered dormant successful a New Hampshire retention installation wherever helium had rented a unit, officials said.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a erstwhile Brown pupil and Portuguese national, was recovered dormant Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Colonel Oscar Perez, the Providence constabulary chief, said astatine a quality conference.

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Perez said arsenic acold arsenic investigators know, the fishy acted alone. Investigators judge Neves Valente is liable for some the shooting astatine Brown and the sidesplitting of an MIT prof who was fatally changeable successful his location Monday, the US lawyer for Massachusetts, Leah B Foley, said.

Two radical were killed and 9 were wounded successful the wide shooting connected Saturday astatine Brown University.

The probe had dramatically shifted Thursday erstwhile authorities said they were looking into a transportation betwixt the Brown wide shooting and an onslaught 2 days aboriginal adjacent Boston that killed 47-year-old MIT prof Nuno FG Loureiro.

Brown University President Christina Paxson said Neves Valente was enrolled astatine Brown from the autumn of 2000 to the outpouring of 2001. “He has nary existent affiliation with the university,” she said. Neves Valente and Loureiro attended the aforesaid world programme astatine a assemblage successful Portugal betwixt 1995 and 2000, Foley said.

The FBI antecedently said it knew of nary links betwixt the 2 shootings.

A 2nd idiosyncratic who was identified successful proximity to the fishy came guardant aft Wednesday’s quality league and helped “blow the lid” disconnected the case, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.

Foley said investigators identified the conveyance Neves Valente rented successful Boston and drove successful Rhode Island. That conveyance was seen extracurricular of Brown University.

Foley said aft leaving Rhode Island for Massachusetts, the fishy attached a Maine fig sheet implicit the rental car’s sheet to assistance conceal his identity.

Video footage showed Neves Valente entering an flat gathering adjacent Loureiro’s. About an hr later, helium was seen entering the retention installation wherever helium was recovered dead, Foley said.

There are inactive “a batch of unknowns” regarding motive, Neronha said. “We don’t cognize wherefore now, wherefore Brown, wherefore these students and wherefore this classroom,” helium said.