A man sought in connection with the mass shooting at Brown University is also suspected of killing an MIT professor, a federal prosecutor said.
Authorities found Claudio Manuel Nieves Valiente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday, where he is believed to have committed suicide, Fox News reported. In addition to being the prime suspect in the shooting at the Ivy League school that left two students dead, Nieves Valente is also believed to be responsible for the killing of Nuno Loureiro on Monday, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley of the District of Massachusetts said during a news conference Thursday evening. (RELATED: MS NOW host wasted no time in praising Australia for pushing for more gun control after mass shootings)
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“This evening at approximately 9 p.m., federal agents broke into a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire, searching for Claudio Nieves Valiente, a Portuguese national who we believe shot and killed two Brown University students and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Brookline, Massachusetts,” Foley told reporters. “Federal agents found Nieves Valiente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
The college shooting killed Ella Brown, a 19-year-old from Alabama who was vice president of the College Republicans at Brown University, and aspiring doctor Mehmed Aziz Omurzukov. The manhunt for the shooter responsible for the double murder continued for several days after the FBI initially announced that a person of interest was in custody before later being released.
Loureiro, who worked at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday night and died from his wounds the next day. According to To CBS News. Fox News reported that Neves Vilente and Loureiro attended the same Portuguese university.
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