Suspect in Brown and M.I.T. Killings Died 2 Days Before He Was Found, Autopsy Shows
The New York Times••general
Key Points:
- Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor, died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head two days before his body was found in a New Hampshire storage unit.
- Neves Valente is accused of killing two students and injuring nine others at Brown University, where he was once a physics graduate student, and later killing MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a former colleague from Portugal.
- Investigators recovered two 9-millimeter pistols from the storage unit; forensic tests confirmed these firearms were used in the Brown shooting and the MIT killing.
- DNA evidence preliminarily linked Neves Valente to the Brown University crime scene, supporting
