Brown University shooting suspect died two days before body discovered, autopsy shows

An autopsy found Claudio Manuel Neves Valente died by suicide on 16 December. Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national living in the US, died the same day MIT nuclear physics professor Nuno Loureiro died at a Massachusetts hospital. Three days earlier Neves Valente carried out a shooting at Brown university's Barus & Holley engineering building, killing students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and injuring nine others. Investigators reconstructed a timeline across three states and traced a Reddit tip to a gray Nissan, rental records and photographs that identified the suspect. The vehicle and his body were found outside a Salem storage facility with a satchel containing two firearms. Neves Valente had been a doctoral student at Brown and previously studied with Loureiro.

"Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who had been living in the US, died on 16 December, the same day that his fellow countryman, MIT nuclear physics professor Nuno Loureiro died at a hospital in Massachusetts. Three days earlier, authorities have said, Neves Valente was responsible for a shooting in Rhode Island that claimed the lives of two students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and injured nine others"

"The tipoff in Rhode Island that a suspicious man was seen driving away from the university in a gray Nissan with Florida plates matched a Massachusetts report that a similar car was seen in the vicinity of Loureiro's shooting, but with Maine plates. The Florida plates was traced to a Boston car rental office, where investigators learned the identity of the suspect."

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