Brown University Shooter Was Dead For Days Before Discovery: Authorities

The suspected gunman behind both the deadly shooting spree at Brown University and the killing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor was already dead for two days before authorities found his body inside a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said Friday.

Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University graduate student, died Tuesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. Police discovered his body Thursday night inside a storage unit in Salem following a nearly weeklong manhunt.

Authorities identified Valente as the suspect who opened fire inside a Brown University lecture hall Saturday, killing two students and wounding nine others. The victims were Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old Uzbek American freshman.

Valente had attended Brown more than 20 years earlier as a doctoral student but dropped out in 2003 after completing three semesters, according to an affidavit.

Two days after the Brown shooting, Valente traveled roughly 50 miles and fatally shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro inside his Brookline, Massachusetts townhouse, authorities said.