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\nA memorial for Ella Cook and Muhammad Aziz Umurzakov outside of the Brown University Engineering Research Center<\/p>\n
The man believed to be behind a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and wounded several others has been found dead, officials announced.<\/p>\n
Officials also believe the same man, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was a student at Brown, was responsible for the fatal shooting of a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his Boston home.<\/p>\n
Providence police chief Oscar Perez, who identified the suspect as Claudio Neves-Valente, told reporters: “He took his own life tonight.”<\/p>\n
The shooter, who was found at a storage unit in New Hampshire along with two firearms, is believed to have acted alone.<\/p>\n
“Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little bit easier,” Mayor Brett Smiley told reporters.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate indication of a motive in the twin shootings at two of the top universities in the United States.<\/p>\n
“The groundwork that started in the city of Providence… led us to that connection,” Mr Perez said, without offering further details, with an upcoming press conference set in Boston.<\/p>\n
The shooting at Brown – located in Providence, Rhode Island – happened Saturday, when a man with a rifle burst into a campus building at the Ivy League college where students were taking exams.<\/p>\n
The man opened fire, killing two students and then fleeing.<\/p>\n
The two students killed were Ella Cook, vice president of Brown’s Republican Party association, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, originally from Uzbekistan, who had hoped to become a neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n
One survivor was in critical but stable condition, five were in stable condition, and two had been discharged from hospital, Mr Smiley said earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
\nA memorial for Ella Cook and Muhammad Aziz Umurzakov outside of the Brown University Engineering Research Center<\/p>\n
For days, investigators appeared to have little to go on, releasing images of a person of interest and an individual who was seen standing near that person in an effort to trace them.<\/p>\n
Officials had given daily media updates at which they have voiced increasing frustration with the so far fruitless manhunt. But then the case blew open.<\/p>\n