Brown, MIT Professor Murder Suspect Found Dead After Manhunt (1)

Officials have found the dead body of the suspected shooter in a Brown University rampage and the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in his Boston-area home.

There is no longer a threat to the public, according to a statement late Thursday night from Leah Foley, US attorney for Massachusetts, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The suspected shooter — Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was a former student at Brown — took his own life, Providence Chief of Police Oscar Perez said at a press ...