Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire storage facility after five-day manhunt
Investigators turned on Friday to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the prime suspect was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The body of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and formerly very briefly a student at Brown, was discovered in a New Hampshire storage facility on Thursday night after a five-day manhunt.
Authorities say he was responsible for last Saturday’s mass shooting at the university’s engineering building on campus in Providence, Rhode Island, in which two people were killed and nine others wounded.
The suspect then drove 50 miles to Brookline, Massachusetts, and shot dead the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno FG Loureiro at his home on Monday night, the FBI said during a press conference that also revealed the existence of a tipster named “John”, who was key in leading investigators to Neves Valente.
