The suspect in last weekend’s shooting at Brown University in the United States was found dead, international news agencies reported in the night from Thursday to Friday. It concerns 48-year-old Claudio Valente, a former university student with Portuguese nationality. According to Brown University, he no longer had an active connection with the institution. Another suspect was arrested on Sunday, but it soon turned out not to be the shooter.
Valente’s body was found in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, about 50 miles north of Providence where the shooting occurred. A Justice Ministry official told Reuters anonymously that the suspect probably took his own life. No further details about the circumstances have been released.
The shooting Saturday evening at a Brown University education building left two students dead and several others injured. The shooter managed to escape, after which a large-scale manhunt followed. Valente was enrolled at the university from September 2000 to April 2001 and took physics courses in the building where he opened fire.
On Monday, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was also shot dead in his home near Boston. According to American media, authorities are investigating whether there is a link between the two cases. Previously, the investigative services said they saw no direct indications of a link.
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