Brown College taking pictures suspect discovered lifeless, police say

[ad_1] The person believed to be behind a mass taking pictures at Brown College that left two folks lifeless and wounded a number of others has been discovered lifeless, officers introduced Thursday.

Officers additionally imagine the identical man, a 48-year-old Portuguese nationwide who was a scholar at Brown, was accountable for the deadly taking pictures of a physicist on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how in his Boston residence.

Windfall police chief Oscar Perez, who recognized the suspect as Claudio Neves-Valente, informed reporters: "He took his personal life tonight."

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The shooter, who was discovered at a storage unit in New Hampshire together with two firearms, is believed to have acted alone.

"Tonight, our Windfall neighbors can lastly breathe a bit of bit simpler," Mayor Brett Smiley informed reporters.

There was no fast indication of a motive within the twin shootings at two of the highest universities in the US.

"The groundwork that began within the metropolis of Windfall... led us to that connection," Perez stated, with out providing additional particulars, with an upcoming press convention set in Boston.

The taking pictures at Brown -- positioned in Windfall, Rhode Island -- occurred Saturday, when a person with a rifle burst right into a campus constructing on the Ivy League faculty the place college students have been taking exams.

The person opened hearth, killing two college students after which fleeing.

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The 2 college students killed have been Ella Cook dinner, vp of Brown's Republican Get together affiliation, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, initially from Uzbekistan, who had hoped to turn into a neurosurgeon.

One survivor was in important however steady situation, 5 have been in steady situation, and two had been discharged from hospital, Smiley stated earlier within the day.

For days, investigators appeared to have little to go on, releasing photos of an individual of curiosity and a person who was seen standing close to that individual in an effort to hint them.

Officers had given each day media updates at which they've voiced growing frustration with the to this point fruitless manhunt.

However then the case blew open.

Authorities initially detained a person in reference to the taking pictures, however later launched him.

The college has confronted questions, together with from President Donald Trump, about its safety preparations after it emerged that none of its 1,200 safety cameras have been linked to the police's surveillance system.

There have been greater than 300 mass shootings in the US to this point this yr, in line with the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass taking pictures as 4 or extra folks shot.