Brown University shooting suspect found dead

A 48-year-old Portuguese man identified as a suspect in a shooting at Brown University in the United States was found dead, police have said. He is also suspected of having killed a MIT professor, authorities said.

A man suspected of killing two people and wounding nine others at Brown University last weekend has been found dead in a storage facility in the state of New Hampshire, authorities said late Thursday.

"He took his own life tonight," Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said of the suspect, a 48-year-old Portuguese man who two decades earlier was a Brown University student.

Brown University President Christina Paxson said the suspect attended Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 as a graduate student in physics. 

“He has no current affiliation with the university," she said.

Investigators believe the man was also responsible for the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was fatally shot in Boston on Monday, US Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said.

What do we know about the investigation?

It has been nearly a week since the mass shooting took place at Brown University. Tension mounted in Providence as the shooter managed to escape. 

Another person was identified in connection to the suspect, who came forward after Wednesday’s press conference and helped “blow the lid” off the case, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.

“When you crack it, you crack it. That person led us to the car, led us to the name," Neronha said.

So far,  authorities have not been able to determine any motive behind either of the shootings at two of the top universities in the United States.

There are still “a lot of unknowns” in regard to motive, Neronha said. “We don’t know why now, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom,” he said.

Edited by: Sean Sinico