The suspect in the shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor died two days before he was found in a storage unit in New Hampshire, the authorities said Friday.
An autopsy performed by New Hampshire’s chief medical examiner on Friday found that the suspect, identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, had died from a gunshot wound to the head in an apparent suicide, Attorney General John M. Formella of New Hampshire said in a statement. Mr. Neves Valente’s body was found in a storage facility in Salem, N.H., late Thursday.
Mr. Neves Valente is accused of opening fire last Saturday at Brown University, where he once attended as a physics graduate student, and killing two students and injuring nine others. Two days later, he shot and killed Nuno F.G. Loureiro, an M.IT. professor whom he had studied with in Portugal, officials said.
The following day, on Tuesday, Mr. Neves Valente appears to have died in the storage unit, according to the autopsy.
Soumya Karlamangla is a Times reporter who covers California. She is based in the Bay Area.
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