India, Dec. 19 -- Claudio Neves Valente was identified as the Brown University shooting suspect on Thursday. In a press conference, officials revealed that the 48-year-old died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was found in a New Hampshire storage facility.

The Associated Press cited a law enforcement official to report that investigators believe Valente is responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro, in his Brookline home. Authorities have not formally confirmed a connection between the two shootings.

Brown University President Christina Paxson later disclosed that Valente had briefly attended the school in 2000 as a graduate student in physics. Durin...