Authorities identified Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente as the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings.
They found him dead on Thursday evening in a New Hampshire storage unit. From NBC News:
[Rhode Island Attorney General Peter] Nerhona said a person who saw a photo of the suspect reached out to authorities with information and “blew this case right open.”That information led police to a rental car, the suspect’s name and photos of him renting the car, he said. The clothing he was seen wearing in those photos matched the clothing worn by the shooter at Brown, Nerhona said.
The shooting at Brown happened on December 14. Two days later, a man murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home.
Why Loureiro?
Well, the FBI believes Neves-Valente attended the same Portuguese university as Loureiro.
The authorities identified Neves-Valente, 48, through tactical gear outside of a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire.
The Portuguese national “studied at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 to study physics.”
Authorities believe Neves-Valente’s major had him spend a lot of time in the Barus and Holley Building, where the shooting took place.
Neves-Valente took a leave of absence and withdrew from Brown in 2003.
Fox News reported that “[A] man with the same name was also terminated from a monitor position at the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal in 2000.”
Authorities believe that the man is Neves-Valente.
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