A man suspected of killing two people and wounding nine others at Brown University before going on to kill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, where he had rented a unit, officials said.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and a former Brown student, was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Providence police chief, Oscar Perez, said at a news conference. He added that, as far as investigators knew, the suspect had acted alone.
Leah Foley, the US attorney for Massachusetts, said at a separate news conference in Boston that Neves Valente had also killed Nuno FG Loureiro, the MIT physics professor who was shot in his home on Monday, two days after the attack at Brown.
The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program at Donald Trump’s direction, saying it had enabled the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the US.
