A former Brown University graduate student linked to the mass shooting on campus has been found dead. The assailant, identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, also was tied to a second case — the murder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro (see the full Redacted News story below).
The Brown University shooting occurred Dec. 13 in Providence, Rhode Island, as students were attending a review session for final exams. Two students were killed and several others wounded. The murder of Loureiro followed on Dec. 15 outside the professor’s home in Brookline, Mass. Loureiro, who was spearheading some groundbreaking research in nuclear fusion, apparently attended the same university as Loureiro in their native country of Portugal.
“There’s no longer a threat to the public,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said in a statement.
Authorities announced Valente’s identity and suspected role in the Brown shooting hours after his body was discovered in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, with guns found at the scene. Valente has been a PhD program student in physics at Brown University.
Valente is the “individual we believe responsible for the Brown shooting,” FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Ted Docks said at a press conference in Providence.
“Many questions need to be answered,” said Docks. Here’s more from Benny Johnson.
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