Claudio Neves Valente, Portuguese national identified as Brown University shooting suspect who killed 2, injured eight after shooting self dead in storage facility in New Hampshire after cops tracking him to location.
Authorities have identified the suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University, which left two students dead and twelve injured during a finals week review session.
The shooter was identified as Portuguese national, Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, according to the FBI.
He was found dead Thursday evening, authorities announced at a press briefing Thursday evening, after law enforcement officers in tactical gear were seen outside a storage unit linked to him in Salem, New Hampshire, for hours.
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Authorities had said they found a vehicle used by the suspect parked outside the building in Salem – more than 80 miles from the Ivy League school – and secured a search warrant for a unit believed to have been rented by the suspect. Police then found the suspect dead inside the unit.
Neves Valente, who studied at Brown, had two firearms on him at the time of his death, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha revealed.
‘He was found dead with a satchel, with two firearms and evidence in the car that matches exactly what we see here in Providence,’ Neronha said.
The lead came when a license plate reader flagged one of the license plates that matched the car the suspect was driving, law enforcement officials told CNN.
The vehicle was the same make and model as a car identified in connection with the shooting death of MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro, also a Portuguese national.
Investigators said they were exploring whether the two school shootings were linked.
Police said Thursday night they were able to track down the wanted suspect after a witness came forward.
Break through in unsolved case
‘That person led us to the car, which led us to the name, which led us to the photographs of that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing of our shooter here in Providence that matched the satchel that we see here in Providence,’ Neronha said.
The big break in the case finally came on the sixth day of the manhunt for the suspect, after authorities investigating the Brown shooting saw a call-out from Massachusetts police probing Loureiro’s murder – and realized a vehicle of interest in that case was just like the one they were looking for.
It was the same make and model, but the license plates were different, law enforcement officials told CNN.
The Brown University hooting happened around 4 p.m. Saturday at a finals week study session at the Barus and Holley Building on the eastern edge of campus.
Detectives initially questioned a person of interest at a hotel outside town but ruled him out as a suspect, according to authorities.
FBI documents confirm Claudio Neves-Valente was seen on Flock cameras around Brown University Areas 13 days in a ROW !!!!! pic.twitter.com/SBwZTwojxf
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Suspect shooter had scoped out Brown University 13 days in a row
Police spent days canvassing the neighborhood for surveillance video, which turned up images of a person of interest — a masked, stocky figure who stood around 5 feet, 8 inches tall and walked with an odd gait.
Then they shared images of a second person who they said may have information about the person they were seeking and asked for the public’s help identifying both of them.
On the day of Saturday’s shooting, Neves-Valente fired 40 rounds, killing the two students and wounding 12 more.
Six of the surviving victims remained hospitalized as of Thursday afternoon in stable condition.
The two killed were identified as Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia.
The surrounding community spent days waiting for answers, with residents on edge after the school sent students home early in the wake of the shooting.
Officials have yet to say what led to the Brown University shooting along with what is now suspected also to be the same individual in the shooting death of a MIT professor days later.
