The man suspected of killing two people and injuring several others at Brown University was a Portuguese national whose last known address was in Miami, law enforcement officials said during a news conference Thursday.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was found dead Thursday evening at a storage facility in New Hampshire from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said.
Valente, who was also a Brown student, is believed to be responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who was fatally shot in his home Monday, according to a law enforcement official. Police said they were investigating whether the two shootings were connected.
Valente was a graduate student in a PhD physics program. He enrolled on Sept. 1, 2000, took a leave of absence in April 2001, and formally withdrew in 2003, Brown University President Christina Paxson said.
The suspect enrolled exclusively in physics courses, Paxson said.
Most physics classes have long been held in the Barus & Holley building, she said, which is the same building where the shooting occurred.
Two people were killed and nine were wounded in the mass shooting Saturday at Brown University.