Brown-MIT shooting suspect killed himself two days before being found
The suspect involved in the shootings at Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology was found to have died by suicide in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, two days before his body was discovered.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente fatally shot himself shortly after the Brown university mass shooting and the murder of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro. Authorities are still investigating the motive behind the attacks. It was revealed that Neves Valente and Loureiro had known each other, having studied physics together at a Portuguese university in the 1990s. The inquiry faced criticism due to an initial mistaken arrest and delays in apprehending the suspect, which police attributed to the complexity of the case and the careful examination of evidence required. Police initially did not link the Brown University shooting and Loureiro’s murder, but further details have as emerged highlighting connections between the incidents.
Brown-MIT shooting suspect killed himself two days before being found, autopsy shows
The suspect accused of killing two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was ruled to have committed suicide in a storage unit two days before he was found.
An autopsy found that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente shot himself in a Salem, New Hampshire, storage unit on Tuesday, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. That was two days after the Brown University mass shooting and one day after the murder of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, in his own home.
Neves Valente’s death leaves more questions than answers, especially regarding his motive, which authorities are still seeking to establish.
Since finding Neves Valente’s corpse, authorities have established that the killer and Loureiro studied physics at the same Portuguese university at the same time in the 1990s.
“My understanding is that they did know each other,” said Leah Foley, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
The shootings drew additional national attention because of the botched investigation around them. After initially announcing a suspect was in custody on Sunday, police soon revealed they had arrested the wrong person, and the suspect was still on the run. The inability of police to apprehend the mass shooter invited a barrage of criticism on local law enforcement, something acknowledged by Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar L. Perez Jr.
“There was a lot of criticism, too, as far as, like, how long has the investigation taken,” he said. “And sometimes, you know, it’s just that when you’re not a police officer, you don’t understand how this works,” he said, explaining that investigators have to evaluate all the leads and physical evidence, which can be a painstaking process.
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“And so it takes work and…you can’t do that within minutes. Sometimes it takes days,” Perez added.
Police also initially dismissed a link between the Brown University shooting and Loureiro’s murder.
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