Suspect in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing found dead
Portuguese national suspect took his own life as investigators reveal a years-old academic connection to a slain MIT scientist
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead on Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Colonel Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said Neves Valente was enrolled there as a graduate student studying physics from autumn 2000 to spring 2001.
“He has no current affiliation with the university,” she said.