PROVIDENCE, December 19. /Dunyo IA/.  A man suspected of killing two people, including a student from Uzbekistan and injuring nine others at Brown University in the United States was found dead in New Hampshire, reports Dunyo IA correspondent, citing CBS News.

At a press conference on December 18, Providence Police Chief Colonel Oscar L. Perez publicly identified the suspect in the Brown University shooting as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48‑year‑old Portuguese national and former Brown University graduate student. Chief Perez stated that Valente was found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire and that he took his own life.

According to authorities, Valente had previously been a student at Brown University in the early 2000s and became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2017.

 “The suspect in the shooting at Brown University, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was a former student who was enrolled at the school from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001”, - Brown University President Christina Paxson said. - He was admitted to the graduate school to study a Ph.D. physics program. He took a leave of absence in April 2001, before formally withdrawing on July 31, 2003.

Officials said they believe the suspect previously attended the same university in Lisbon, Portugal, as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was fatally shot in Boston on 15 December. Both were natives of Portugal. The suspect studied in Brown's physics Ph.D. program before dropping out, and Loureiro became a renowned researcher in that field.

“Until Thursday, investigators investigators had struggled to obtain clear security images of the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, or determine his possible whereabouts in the wake of the shooting”, -  reports “CBS News.

Nearly a week has passed since the mass shooting at Brown University, which claimed the life of a first-year student from Uzbekistan. Tensions in Providence escalated after the suspect managed to evade capture, with authorities struggling to confirm his identity.

In response, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, acting on the directive of President Donald Trump, has ordered the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to suspend the Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery program, which had enabled the suspect to reside in the country.