Suspect in Brown College capturing discovered lifeless in New Hampshire : NPR

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Boston Globe/through Getty Photographs The suspect within the capturing Saturday at Brown College that killed two college students and injured 9 was discovered lifeless in a New Hampshire storage unit, authorities introduced Thursday evening.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was found at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, mentioned Windfall Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez at a information convention.

Neves Valente was a Brown scholar and Portuguese nationwide, who was final identified to reside in Miami, Perez mentioned. Authorities tracked the person by means of video surveillance that led to a automobile rental company in Massachusetts.

The arrest got here as a aid to many on campus and within the surrounding Windfall neighborhood, who endured 5 days of worry and uncertainty because the investigation foundered with few leads.

"Tonight our Windfall neighbors can lastly breathe just a little simpler," mentioned Windfall Mayor Brett Smiley.

Perez mentioned Monday the assault was "positively focused" however didn't elaborate. Brown's campus and components of the encompassing neighborhood have been ordered to shelter-in-place.

The day of the capturing, authorities launched the primary pictures from space surveillance cameras of a person who they believed to be linked to the capturing, providing a $50,000 reward for info resulting in his identification and arrest.

Regulation enforcement officers on Sunday initially centered on a distinct "individual of curiosity" however cleared and launched him later that evening. Investigators continued to scour the realm for clues, forming strains and sweeping apart freshly fallen snow with their toes as they searched neighboring streets.

Extra video pictures and maps have been launched this week, displaying the person [arrested today] who police now imagine to be linked to the capturing strolling the realm close to campus hours earlier than and after the capturing. XXXX matches authorities' description of a male, roughly 5'8" with a stocky construct.

The capturing befell about 4 p.m. Saturday at Barus and Holley Corridor in a stadium-style seating classroom the place college students have been gathered for an economics class overview session forward of ultimate exams.

College students described listening to gunshots simply earlier than seeing a person in a face masks burst into the classroom and begin firing. Ref Bari, a physics graduate scholar, mentioned he ran out of the constructing when the capturing began and hid in a rest room for hours with different fleeing strangers.

"There have been rumors that the shooter was out on the road, like toes from us, and it was so terrifying," Bari instructed NPR's "Right here and Now." He known as 911 from the toilet, and mentioned he instructed police "there have been gunshots behind me," solely to be instructed by police they did not know what number of lively shooters there have been, and he ought to keep sheltered.

"It is simply this sense of helplessness," Bari mentioned. "There is no Superman who's going to save lots of the day. It is you and your folks."

Brown college students Ella Cook dinner, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, have been killed.

Cook dinner, from Birmingham, Ala., was vice chairman of Brown's faculty Republican membership, and in keeping with her obituary, had "a coronary heart as huge because the solar" and "evinced a type of 'silent management,' to cite her brother Hooker." She was identified for "her persistent braveness in following each coronary heart and conscience" in addition to her big selection of pursuits. She beloved spending time with pals, babysitting, instructing Bible lessons and pursuing her research at Brown, the place she was majoring in French and Arithmetic-Economics.

Cook dinner was remembered on the Cathedral Church of the Introduction, as "an unimaginable, grounded, trustworthy, brilliant mild," each at residence and at Brown.

Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth posted on X that Cook dinner "represented the easiest of Alabama. A brilliant future was ended a lot too quickly."

Umurzokov, a naturalized citizen, immigrated to america in 2011 from Uzbekistan. The U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan mentioned it was mourning "the lack of a "brilliant future."

Freshman Shane Toomey mentioned Umurzokov needed to be a neurosurgeon, and beloved studying a lot he was at that economics overview session simply hoping to study one thing new - he wasn't even enrolled within the class.

"He might maintain a dialog with anyone about absolutely anything after which pivot to one thing solely totally different," Toomey instructed Ocean State Media. Umurzokov, he added, appeared "to be pals with each single individual you stroll by on a campus of 1000's of individuals."

On Sunday, Brown College canceled all remaining in-person exams for the autumn semester to "focus our efforts on offering care and assist to the members of our neighborhood" and to "grapple with the sorrow, worry and anxiousness that's impacting all of us proper now."