U.S. Police find Brown University shooting suspect dead

Washington.- U.S. Police identified this Thursday a 48-year-old Portuguese citizen as the main suspect in the shooting that occurred on Saturday at Brown University, who was found dead with a gunshot wound that authorities consider self-inflicted. The suspect identified as Claudio Neves, of Portuguese nationality, was found dead in a warehouse in the state of New Hampshire, according to the State Police during a press conference. After the announcement, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley told the press that “tonight our neighbors in Providence will be able to breathe a little easier.”

Two students killed in the attack

Authorities indicated that they tracked the suspect to a car rental agency in Massachusetts and subsequently to the warehouse in New Hampshire, where he was found dead along with a wallet and two firearms. According to preliminary information from the prosecution, Neves is suspected of having been the perpetrator of the attack that caused the death of students Ella Cook, from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, of Uzbek-American origin. The president of Brown University, Christina Paxson, noted that the suspect was enrolled in the institution between 2000 and 2001 as a graduate student in physics. “It is logical to assume that this man, when he was a student, spent a lot of time in the building where the shooting occurred,” he stated.