Authorities found Cláudio Neves Valente dead in a warehouse in New Hampshire this Thursday night
The autopsy on the suspect of killing physicist Nuno Loureiro and two other people at Brown University, in the United States, determined that the Portuguese man had been dead for two days when the body was found, the US authorities said.
Authorities found Cláudio Neves Valente dead in a warehouse in New Hampshire this Thursday night.
The autopsy determined that Neves Valente, a Portuguese man who lived in the US, died on Tuesday, the same day that his compatriot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno Loureiro, died in a hospital, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a statement.
The information released did not detail the exact time of death, reported the Associated Press (AP).
Authorities believe that after killing two students and wounding nine others last Saturday at Brown, where he was a graduate student during the 2000-01 academic year, Neves Valente shot Loureiro in his Boston-area home on Monday night.
This Friday, investigators were still trying to clarify why Neves Valente opened fire on campus decades after abandoning his studies and, later, murdering Loureiro, with whom he studied in Portugal in the 1990s.
Peter Neronha, attorney general of Rhode Island, the state where Brown University is located, stressed that “there are still many unknowns” about the case.
Neves Valente, 48, was found dead Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said.
The discovery of Neves Valente’s body in a warehouse in New Hampshire put an end to the almost week-long search for the person responsible for the murder of two students and nine injured people in a Brown University auditorium last Saturday.
Investigators believe the former Brown student killed Loureiro at his home in Brookline, a Boston suburb about 50 miles north of Providence, on Monday.
Perez added that as far as investigators know, Neves Valente acted alone.
Valente was a monitor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), in Lisbon, where he was a classmate of Loureiro’s, and the institution terminated his contract the year he went to study in the United States.
In February 2000, Técnico terminated the contract it had with Cláudio Neves Valente as monitor, as stated in an order published in March of that year in the Diário da República.
The suspect and victim were course mates at IST, said the institution, which was contacted by US authorities following the homicide investigation.
