The suspected shooter in the attack at Brown University last Saturday (13), Claudio Valente, is accused of killing a professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), days after the attack in Rhode Island.
“On December 15, he murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at Loureiro’s home in Brookline, Massachusetts,” said federal prosecutor for the District of Massachusetts, Leah Foley, at a press conference in Boston on Thursday night (18).
Foley added that Valente attended the same academic program as the MIT professor in Portugal between 1995 and 2000.
According to investigators, Valente specifically targeted the teacher in the attack, an agent told CNN on Thursday.
Investigators do not believe, at this time, that the two students killed at Brown were direct targets, the agent said.
Suspect found dead
The suspect in the attack on Brown University, four police authorities informed the CNN.
According to Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, the suspect, identified as Claudio Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese citizen, was found dead with a backpack, two firearms and evidence that matched the crime scene.
Police Chief Oscar L. Perez Jr. said the suspect committed suicide. According to Perez, the shooter acted alone.
Remember the shooting attack
The shooting attack at Brown University in Providence, in the US state of Rhode Island, left two students dead and nine others injured at the Ivy League institution on Saturday (13), authorities said.
The university remained on lockdown for hours after an armed suspect entered a building where students were taking exams.
The gunman fled after shooting students in a classroom in the Barus & Holley engineering building, where the exterior doors were unlocked while exams were being taken, authorities said.
All of the victims were students, university president Christina Paxson said in an email to the community.
The suspect employed a series of countermeasures to avoid being tracked, in addition to changing license plates in different cities, apparently planning in advance how to avoid surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology, making himself unrecognizable, an official said.
