What we know on Claudio Neves Valente, Brown shooting suspect found dead as MIT professor link probed

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man suspected of killing two students and wounding nine at Brown University, was found dead Thursday in a New Hampshire storage unit.

The man suspected of killing two students and wounding nine others in a shooting at Brown University before fatally shooting a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later was found dead Thursday in a New Hampshire storage unit, officials said.

The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, died by suicide, Providence, Rhode Island, Police Chief Oscar Perez told reporters Thursday.

Valente's body was found in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, roughly 80 miles north of Providence, that authorities had obtained warrants to search, said Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston field office.

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The suspect, a Portuguese national whose last known address was in Miami, attended Brown in the early 2000s as a Ph.D. student studying physics before he withdrew in 2003, university President Christina Paxson told reporters.