Suspected Brown shooter Valente is found dead, authorities say

The man suspected of the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others last Saturday was found dead from suicide on Thursday, authorities said in Providence, Rhode Island.

At the same time, federal authorities in Boston issued a press release to announce the death of the “Brown University and MIT professor shooter,” and to say “there’s no longer a threat to the public” in a news statement.

The MIT professor, Nuno Gomes Loureiro, 47, was found shot in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday, and died at a hospital on Tuesday.

The suspect in the Brown shooting 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.

Valente had been a PhD program student in physics at Brown.

He is believed to have attended the same university in Lisbon, Portugal, as Loureiro.

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,” Docks said.

Authorities believe Valente acted alone and that he eluded capture for days because he was traveling in a car whose license plates he kept changing.

Brown University President Christina Paxson said, “It is safe to assume that this man, when he was a student, spent a lot of time in that building” where Saturday’s shooting occurred.

The last class he took at Brown was in 2001.

Authorities said he is believed to have been in the United States on a student visa and obtained permanent legal status in 2017

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