Ben Burke

Investigators say they found Claudio Neves Valente's body in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, after a Reddit post led to a breakthrough in the case.

A witness described seeing the suspect near a rental car in the neighborhood next to Brown, which helped authorities identify Valente and track his movements.

The U.S.

attorney for Massachusetts, Leah Foley, says Valente is also responsible for the murder of an MIT professor two days later in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Officials say they believe Valente acted alone.

For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Providence.

Investigators say they found Claudio Neves Valente's body in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, after a Reddit post led to a breakthrough in the case.

A witness described seeing the suspect near a rental car in the neighborhood next to Brown, which helped authorities identify Valente and track his movements.

The U.S.

Attorney for Massachusetts, Leah Foley, says Valente is also responsible for the murder of an MIT professor two days later in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Officials say they believe Valente acted alone.

For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Providence.

Good morning.

The man's name is Claudio Neves Valente.

He's a 48-year-old from Portugal who reentered the country in 2017.

But a while back in the year 2000, he was actually attending Brown University as a graduate student.

He dropped out after a year.

25 years later, authorities say that he shot up a building that he likely did a lot of his graduate work in.

And the MIT professor that he allegedly killed two days later was a physicist as well.

Authorities say Valente went to university in Portugal with this professor.