Brown University Suspected Mass Shooter Found Dead By Suicide In NH Storage Unit

PROVIDENCE, RI — The man charged with killing two Brown University students and injured eight others was found dead — and may have a link to the slaying of an M.I.T. professor two days later — but questions linger.

"Even though the suspect was found dead, our work is not done," said FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Ted Docks, pointing out the killer's motive remains unknown.

Officials identified the killer as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown student and Portugese national living in Miami.

Valente was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Salem, New Hampshire, storage unit by an FBI SWAT team, officials said.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said there was a satchel and two firearms in the unit along with Valente's body.

An arrest warrant charging Valente with two counts of murder and 23 felony counts of assault and felony firearms offenses had been issued Thursday, according to the attorney general's office.

Authorities also investigated potential connections between Valente and M.I.T professor Nuno Loureiro's killing Monday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office considered the link solid, disseminating a press release titled, "U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, FBI, and ATF Announce Death of the Brown University and MIT Professor Shooter."

Loureiro was found fatally shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home.

The hunt for the mass shooter stretched to its sixth day and spread to Massachusetts.

The North Attleboro, Massachusetts, police chief confirmed that investigators on the Brown University case had been in his town too.

"As you are likely aware, there was a shooting at Brown University over the weekend," North Attleboro Police Chief Richard McQuade said in a media release.

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"This investigation, which is being conducted by the Providence Police Department and the FBI, has taken investigators into numerous communities, including ours," McQuade said.

"I want to emphasize there is no immediate threat to our community," he said. "Despite social media chatter, the suspect is not being sought in the town of North Attleboro."

Providence Police Chief Oscar L. Perez has said investigators are ready to go far afield to pursue leads in the investigation.

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"We're all over the place," Perez said. "If a tip comes in and it needs us to go down to Connecticut, we're going down to Connecticut. If a tip comes in and tells us that we got to go to Boston, then we're going to Boston.

Police release video Monday of a person of interest caught on video casing the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooter killed two and injured at least eight others hours before the Saturday afternoon gun attack, said Providence Police Chief Oscar L. Perez.

Then, on Wednesday, police released images of the second person they say was "in proximity of the (original) person of interest."

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"We have video footage that determines to us and the detectives that can tell that this person was in the vicinity where the subject of interest was that we actually have an interest in," Perez said.

The police department urged anyone with information on either person to call 401-272-3121.

Perez also said police have recovered DNA evidence.

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"There's actual physical evidence, there's DNA evidence, there's a lot of evidence we're collecting to ensure that we can find the answer," said Perez, who called the case "intense."

"It's definitely intense and I believe the most intense investigation going on right now in this nation," he said.

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Police also released a map showing the streets where the person of interest in the Brown University shooting is confirmed to have been present on the day of the incident.

Streets marked in green indicate locations where footage confirms the person of interest was present in the hours before the shooting.

Streets marked in red indicate locations where footage confirms the person of interest was present immediately after the shooting.

The blue zone identifies the area where investigators are seeking property or vehicle camera footage from any time on the day of the shooting. Anyone who needs assistance reviewing security or vehicle camera recordings, is urged to contact the Providence Police tip line: 401-272-3121.