UPDATE 10:56 p.m.: Claudio Neves-Valente, 48, shot and killed two students at Brown University in Providence, RI and then, two days later, shot and killed an MIT professor at the professor’s home in Brookline, MA before he shot and killed himself in Salem, NH, law enforcement officials said Thursday night.
Neves-Valente, believed to have been a resident of Miami, is a native of Portugal and a lawful permanent resident of the United States.
He had rented a hotel room in Boston in late November and a car December 1 in Boston, according to an affidavit sworn by an FBI agent. Neves-Valente studied at Brown and attended the same university in Portugal as the MIT victim Nuno Loureiro, the FBI said.
Using video imagery, license plate readers and other law enforcement tools, investigators tracked the rental car near Brown the day before the shooting.
The day the professor was killed, the FBI said the same vehicle was nearby the scene of the crime in Brookline. It’s believed that at some point Neves-Valente switched license plates from a Florida plate to an unregistered and invalid Maine plate.
US Attorney Leah Foley said at a late-night news conference that federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, NH and found Neves-Valente dead inside
UPDATE 10:30 p.m.: The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been identified as Claudio Valente, a 48-year-old former graduate student who had studied at the school 25 years ago.
UPDATE 9:50 p.m.: It has been confirmed that the gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
SALEM, N.H. -- Law enforcement sources tell ABC News that the suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
Earlier Thursday, law enforcement officials said that they identified a possible suspect in connection with the shooting that killed two students and injured nine others, a warrant for the individual's arrest was issued.
Multiple sources tell ABC News that the Saturday afternoon Brown Shooting and the Monday night murder of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, may be linked.
The gunman has not yet been publicly identified.
This is a developing story; more updates will be posted as information unfolds.