Brown College and MIT professor killer Claudio Neves Valente had been lifeless for 2 days when police discovered his lifeless physique inside a New Hampshire storage facility following an almost weeklong manhunt.
Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the top on Tuesday — two days earlier than police discovered the 48-year-old Portuguese nationwide lifeless contained in the Salem storage unit with a satchel and two firearms Thursday night time, the New Hampshire lawyer generals workplace introduced Friday.
His loss of life was dominated a suicide, in accordance with the post-mortem report.
Valente — who attended Brown greater than 20 years in the past as a PhD pupil — was recognized because the gun-toting madman who sprayed bullets right into a lecture corridor on the Rhode Island Ivy League faculty Saturday, killing two college students and wounding 9 extra, police stated.
College students Ella Prepare dinner, a 19-year-old sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old Uzbek American freshman, had been killed within the mass capturing on the elite Windfall college.
The previous physics grad pupil, who spent solely three semesters on the prestigious establishment earlier than dropping out in 2003, then traveled 50 miles and shot lifeless Massachusetts Institute of Know-how professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, in his $1.4 million Brookline townhouse two days later, authorities stated.
Valente and Lourerio had as soon as been classmates on the Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal.
Regardless of the obvious ties to Brown and the MIT professor, authorities stated the assailants motives within the disturbing killing spree, which sparked a large manhunt, stay a thriller.
“I don’t assume now we have any thought why now, or why Brown, or why these college students, why this classroom,” Rhode Island Lawyer Basic Peter Neronha advised reporters at a Thursday press convention.
He stated the deranged suspect, who traveled from Florida, made weird “barking” noises when he walked into the Brown lecture corridor and opened hearth, unloading greater than 40 rounds on terrified college students.
“There are some witnesses who stated he stated nothing,” Neronha stated, including, “There are some that say he made a barking noise.”
“Don’t ask me. I don’t know why. And that’s it. There isn’t a different spoken phrase past that, that we’re conscious of.’
Valente reportedly rented the storage unit in November and a grey Nissan with Florida plates Dec. 1 — a automotive that was noticed a number of instances within the space round Brown’s campus via Dec. 12.
After the lethal college capturing, he switched licenses plates and traveled to Massachusetts Monday.
