A flurry of law enforcement activity – then a gunman found deadpublished at 04:39 GMT
After six days, and concerns from the public that the investigation into the mass shooter at Brown University had gone cold, Thursday saw a flurry of law enforcement activity.
Early in the day police said that they had secured an arrest warrant, but they did not disclose the suspect’s name.
As police converged on a storage facility in New Hampshire, it was confirmed that the suspect in the Brown University attack was also wanted for killing a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) two days later.
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead inside a storage unit, after police traced a rental car that was found at the scene of both crimes.
Police say he did not know any victims at Brown, but that he had previously known the professor at MIT, and that they had both previously studied physics together in Portugal, where they were each born.
After two late-night news conferences – in Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts – police still have provided no evidence as to his motives.
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