The man suspected of the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others last Saturday, and then of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later, was found dead from suicide on Thursday, authorities said.
“There’s no longer a threat to the public,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said in a statement.
The suspect in the shootings was identified as Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who had been a graduate student in physics at Brown in the early 2000s.
Authorities announced his identity and suspected role in the Brown shooting hours after his body was discovered in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, with guns at the scene.
Providence, Rhode Island, police had obtained a warrant for Valente’s arrest charging him with two counts of murder, and multiple assault and firearms counts related to the shooting Saturday afternoon in an auditorium at Brown’s Barus & Holley Building, where a group of students were taking an exam review for Principles of Economics.
