An autopsy has determined that the man suspected in shooting attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology was dead for two days when his body was found.
The Associated Press reports that Claudio Neves Valente, 48, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a New Hampshire storage facility.
The autopsy determined that Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who had been living in the United States, died on Dec. 16, the same day that his countryman, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, died at a hospital.
Authorities believe that after killing two students and wounding nine others at Brown in Providence, Rhode Island, on Dec. 13, Neves Valente shot Loureiro at his Boston-area home on Dec. 15.
Investigators were still trying to sort out why Neves Valente opened fire on the campus decades after he dropped out of the university
There are still “a lot of unknowns” in regard to motive, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said. “We don’t know why now, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom,” he said.
The two Brown students killed during a study session for final exams were 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook, and 18-year-old freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.
Although Brown officials say there are 1,200 cameras on campus, the attack happened in an older part of the engineering building that has few, if any, cameras.
