The man suspected of shooting at Brown University and killing an MIT professor has been found dead, officials said

A man suspected of killing two and injuring several others at Brown University has been found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire, officials said.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and originally from Portugal, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Col. Oscar Perez, police chief in Providence, RI, at a press conference. Perez said that as far as detectives know, the suspect did it on his own.

“I’m going to tell you that you killed yourself tonight,” Perez said.

Investigators believe Valente is responsible for the shooting of Brown and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who was shot to death in his Brookline home on Monday, said Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley.

Valente and MIT professor Nuno Loureiro attended the same academic program at the university in Portugal between 1995 and 2000, Foley said.

The FBI previously said it knew of no connection between the two shootings.

He enrolled at Brown in the fall of 2000

Brown University President Christina Paxson said Valente was enrolled at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He’s been accepted to graduate school to study physics since September 2000. “He’s not affiliated with the university right now,” he said.

Two people died and 9 were injured in a shooting incident on Saturday at Brown’s building.

The investigation took a turn Thursday when authorities said they were looking into a connection between Brown’s shooting and the attack two days later near Boston that killed Loureiro.

Frustration with the escape of the suspect

A second person identified as close to the suspect came forward after Wednesday’s press conference and helped “blow the lid” on the case, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.

“If you rub it, you break it. That person led us to the car, he led us to the name,” said Neronha.

Neronha said the suspect affixed a Maine license plate over his Florida license plate to conceal his identity. Valente’s last known address was in Miami.

“There are still a lot of unknowns” about the motive, Neronha said. “We don’t know why now, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom,” he said.

Frustration had risen in Providence that the person who carried out the attack had managed to escape and that a picture of their face had not yet emerged.

Although Brown officials say there are 1,200 cameras on campus, the attack took place in an older part of the engineering building that has few, if any, cameras. And investigators believe the shooter entered and exited through the front door of a residential complex across the street, which may explain why Brown’s cameras didn’t capture images of the man.