Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead

Also the MIT shooting ...

Police Identify Person of Interest in Brown-MIT Shootings
www.vanityfair.com

... Authorities say Claudio Manuel NevesValente, a person of interest in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility ...

@#1 ... A witness had provided a license plate to authorities probing the Brown University shooting, who then investigated the car and its past drivers. This allowed them to identify the same vehicle of interest in the MIT professor killing." ...

License plate tracking?

@#6

At first I chuckled at your comment.

Then, I took it seriously.

I once talked with a HR person at a company in the city just north of me, Danbury, CT.

Danbury has a large Portuguese population. That HR person told me that they company liked to hire the Portuguese workers because they were intelligent, worked hard and made a significant contribution to the company.

In my experience, I do not disagree with that assessment.

And, fwiw, based upon what my Portuguese friends have told me after a beer or two, back in the day, they do not consider themselves to be Hispanic or Latino.

@#9 ... Brazil. ...

Yup.

I also know Brazilians whose primary language seemed to be Portuguese.

At first that was a surprise to me, then I asked and it was explained.

Also, if I may proffer, quite hard-working folk who had contributed to the company's goals.

@#13 ... Police Say Reddit Post Led Them To Brown University Gunman ...

So an apparent voluntary proffering of information.

imo, Great!

Found this ...

Police Say Reddit Post Led Them To Brown University Gunman
www.mediaite.com

... A Reddit post led authorities to the suspected killer of two Brown University students and an MIT professor on Thursday night.

Police in New Hampshire say that Claudio Neves Valente was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a storage facility in Salem. Authorities say Valente, whose name was publicly revealed for the first time on Thursday night, opened fire at Brown's School of Engineering in Providence on Saturday, killing students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, while wounding nine others.

Authorities were also seeking Valente in connection with the subsequent murder of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts.

At a press conference, officials announced that Valente had taken his own life and said a Reddit post tipped them off.

A redditor posted on the Providence, Rhode Island subreddit and said they had seen a gray Nissan with Florida license plates:

I'm being dead serious. The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. That was the car he was driving. It was parked in front of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historical Society on the Cooke St side. I know because he used his key fob to open the car, approached it and then something prompted him to back away. When he backed away he relocked the car. I found that odd so when he circled the block I approached the car and that is when I saw the Florida plates. He was parked in the section between the gate of the RIHS and the corner of Cooke and George St.

The same day, another redditor replied to the post stating that they had called in the post "just in case it wasn't already done." ...