The suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University in the US has been found dead.
Two students were killed and at least eight were injured during the shooting inside a classroom building at the Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday night in Providence, police said the suspect had been found dead. He is a 48-year-old Portuguese man called Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, Providence Police chief Oscar Perez said.
Sources told Sky News’ US partner network NBC News that the suspect had been found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, seemingly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“He may have been dead for a bit of time,” said one senior official.
Rhode Island’s attorney general Peter Neronha said: “He was found dead, with a satchel, with two firearms and evidence in the car that matches exactly what we see at the scene here in Providence.”
Police said earlier they were also investigating a possible link between the suspect and the murder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, two days later in Boston.
Federal officials confirmed the link in the news conference, confirming the death of the “Brown University and MIT professor shooter”. They added that there was “no longer a threat to the public”.
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