Suspected Brown University Shooter Also Allegedly Killed MIT Professor

The man who was sought in connection with a mass shooting at Brown University is also suspected to have killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, a federal prosecutor said.

Authorities found Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, in a Salem, N.H., storage unit Thursday, where he is believed to have committed suicide, Fox News reported. United States Attorney Leah Foley of the District of Massachusetts said during a Thursday night press conference that in addition to being the main suspect in the shooting at the Ivy League school that left two students dead, Neves-Valente was also believed responsible for the Monday murder of Nuno Loureiro.

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“This evening at approximately 9 p.m., federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire, in search of Claudio Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national we believed shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts,” Foley told reporters. “Federal agents found Neves-Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

The shooting at the college left Ella Brown, a 19-year-old from Alabama who was vice-president of the College Republicans at Brown University, and aspiring doctor Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov dead. A manhunt for the shooter responsible for the double homicide dragged on for multiple days after the FBI initially announced a person of interest was in custody before later releasing him.

Loureiro, who worked at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was shot at his Brookline, Mass., home Monday night and died of his wounds the next day, according to CBS News. Neves-Velente and Loureiro attended the same Portuguese university, Fox News reported.

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