India, Dec. 19 -- Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente has been identified as the suspect in the Brown University shooting on December 13 which left two dead and nine injured.

The 48-year-old Portuguese national was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Salem, as law enforcement officials surrounded the storage facility where they'd traced his car. Leah Foley, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said that Neves Valente attended the same academic program in Portugal as Nuno F.G. Loureiro. The MIT professor was shot in his Brookline home, and declared dead a day later.

While it is believed that Valente knew Loureiro, there was no indication that he knew any of the victims in the Brown University incident, as per Foley, New York Times r...