A man suspected of carrying out a mass shooting at Brown University and killing an MIT professor has been found dead following a days-long manhunt, U.S. authorities said on Thursday, December 19th.
Police identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown physics student. His body was discovered in a storage unit in New Hampshire alongside two firearms, with officials saying he died by suicide and acted alone.
The shootings, which left three people dead and several injured, had sparked widespread fear across elite New England campuses. Authorities said there was no immediate indication of a motive, while officials acknowledged growing scrutiny over campus security.
