MADRID, December 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
American authorities announced Thursday that they had found dead the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, whom they identified as a 48-year-old citizen of Portuguese nationality who had studied at this academic institution and who committed suicide.
Providence Police Chief Óscar Pérez confirmed during a press conference that the suspect “committed suicide this evening”, five days after committing the shooting, killing two students and injuring a dozen others and in which he acted alone.
The agency found his body in a store in Salem, New Hampshire, along with a wallet and two firearms that will be analyzed for evidence and DNA, although Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, also present at the press conference, indicated that “we are 100 percent sure that that is our goal and that this case is closed from the standpoint of prosecuting those involved.”
For her part, Brown University President Christina Hull Paxson confirmed that the deceased suspect, identified as Claudio Valente, was enrolled at the center from September 2000 to April 2001, but abandoned it in July 2003.
Shortly afterward, Massachusetts District Attorney Leah Foley held a press conference in which she said Valente had returned to the state of Massachusetts from Rhode Island, where, two days after the shooting, he murdered Nuno Loureiro, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), also of Portuguese nationality.
“Between December 13 and 14, Claudio Valente returned to Massachusetts. On December 15, he murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts,” said the prosecutor who, although she did not provide information on the suspect’s motivations, said that both had participated in the same university program between 1995 and 2000.
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