Brown University shooting suspect's last known address was in Miami: Law enforcement

The man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University was a Portuguese national whose last known address was in Miami, law enforcement officials said in a news conference Thursday.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was found dead Thursday evening in a New Hampshire storage facility from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said.

Valente, who was also a student at Brown, is believed to be responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who was fatally shot in his home Monday, a law enforcement official. Police said that they were investigating whether the two shootings were linked.

Valente was a graduate student in a PhD program in physics. He enrolled on Sept. 1, 2000, then took a leave of absence in April of 2001 before formally withdrawing in 2003, Brown University President Christina Paxson said.

The suspect enrolled only in physics classes, Paxson said.

The majority of physics classes have always been held in the Barus & Holley building, she said, which is the building where the shooting occurred.

Two people were killed and nine were wounded in the mass shooting Saturday at Brown University.