Police report that the suspect in the Brown University shooting has been discovered deceased.

According to authorities, the individual suspected of last week’s mass shooting at Brown University was discovered deceased in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, after a six-day cross-state search.

The suspect has been named as Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese citizen who attended the university in Providence, Rhode Island, approximately 25 years ago.

Oscar Perez, the chief of Providence police, reported that video footage and public tips guided investigators to a car rental facility where they connected the suspect’s name to their person of interest.

Authorities also suspect that Valente was involved in the fatal shooting of an MIT professor two days subsequent to the December 13 incident at Brown.

Rhode Island Attorney General stated that Valente was found dead alongside a satchel and two firearms. Evidence located in a nearby vehicle correlated with the shooting scene at Brown University in Providence.

Preliminary reports indicate Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and authorities could not ascertain how long he may have been in the storage unit.

“Although the suspect was found dead tonight, our efforts are far from over. Numerous questions require answers,” remarked Ted Docks, the FBI Special Agent-in-Charge, noting that around 500 agents had been deployed to aid local law enforcement in the investigation.

Christina Paxson, the president of Brown University, stated that Valente attended the Ivy League institution from the fall of 2000 until the spring of 2001, pursuing a PhD in physics.

She noted he had “no current active engagement” with Brown.

Authorities suspect that Valente was involved in the shooting death of MIT professor Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, 47, on Monday at his residence in Brookline, located roughly 50 miles (80km) from Providence.

Both the victim and the suspect had attended the same university in Portugal during the late 1990s, according to police.

Links between the incidents were established when the suspect’s vehicle was captured on CCTV footage and recognized by a witness at Brown University.

The same vehicle was observed near the scene of the professor’s shooting in Brookline, Massachusetts.

“He was using a phone that obscured tracking capabilities,” remarked Leah B Foley, the state attorney for Massachusetts.

“He demonstrated sophistication in concealing his traces.”

Officials have not disclosed any potential motives for either shootings.

For several days, community members voiced their dissatisfaction with the investigation into the Brown University shooting that occurred last Saturday, noting it seemed to make minimal progress nearly a week following the incident.

A shooter entered Brown University’s Barus & Holley engineering facility and opened fire during final examinations.

Two students lost their lives and nine others sustained injuries. Six individuals remain hospitalized.

The authorities identified the deceased victims as Ella Cook, 19, a sophomore hailing from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, a freshman student of Uzbek-American descent.

Police had requested patience from Rhode Island residents and on Wednesday shared new footage of a person of interest, where a man was seen traversing the university campus with a black mask covering his mouth.

The FBI also announced a reward of $50,000 (£37,350) for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual accountable for the attack.