The suspected Brown University shooter has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
Providence police chief Oscar Perez said that the suspect was a 48-year-old man who was a Portuguese national and a student at Brown.
According to a statement - law enforcement tracked Neves Valente to a Salem, New Hampshire, storage unit. After obtaining a federal search warrant for the unit, authorities entered and found Neves Valente deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Neves Valente (age 48) was born in Torres Novas, Santarem, Portugal and was a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States. Neves Valente arrived in the United States in August 2000 as an F-1 student at Brown University and subsequently obtained U.S. lawful permanent residency in April 2017. While at Brown University, he was enrolled in a doctoral program but subsequently withdrew from the university.
The man's last known address was in Miami.
He was found dead with a satchel and two firearms, and his car had evidence that matched the scene in Providence.
Brown officials say that the suspected shooter was a student at one time back around 2000 and studied physics.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha says he is not aware of a motive right now but that might be more apparent once a concurrent investigation is completed in Massachusetts related to the shooting of an MIT professor.
Two people were killed and nine others were injured in the university shooting that took place Saturday.
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