New York, Dec 19 || The suspect who launched a reign of terror at two elite US institutions with a mass shooting at the Ivy League Brown University and the murder of a nuclear science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has killed himself, officials said.
The man was identified as Claudio Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown student from Portugal, and he was found dead in a storage facility as law enforcement closed in on him, Oscar Perez, the police chief of Providence in Rhode Island, said Thursday night.
The storage facility was in neighbouring New Hampshire state, stretching the investigations across three states.
Two students were killed on Saturday at Brown University in Providence and nine were injured as they were preparing for final exams at the School of Engineering when the shooter burst in, guns blazing.
On Monday night, the director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Nuno Loureiro, a Portugal native like Valente, was killed at his house in Brookline in Massachusetts.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said the motive for the attacks was a “mystery”.