India, Dec. 19 -- Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, has been identified as the Brown University shooting suspect. He has also been linked to the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, in Brookline. Valente died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as authorities surrounded the Salem storage facility, they'd tracked him down to.

While this brings the manhunt to a close after around six days, it is actually a Reddit post and a Redditor who helped the investigators crack open the case.

Not only did the person draw attention to the possible suspect's car but also reached out to detectives to detail his interactions with the suspect, all of which helped in the course of the investigation.

The details of how this...