Nicole Parton

The autopsy confirmed both victims died from multiple sharp force injuries.

Nick Reiner remains in custody without bail and is scheduled for arraignment in January.

The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown University has been discovered dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, following a six-day multi-state manhunt, according to law enforcement officials.

The suspect has been identified as 48-year-old Claudio Nevis Valente, a Portuguese national who attended the university in Providence, Rhode Island, approximately 25 years ago.

Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez stated that video surveillance and tips from the public guided investigators to a car rental facility where they matched Valente's name to their person of interest.

Authorities also suspect that the man was involved in a murder of a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT just two days after the December 13 shooting at Brown.

No motive has been disclosed for either incident,

Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed that Valente was enrolled at the university from fall 2000 until spring 2001, pursuing a Ph.D.

in physics, but he did not have any current affiliation with the institution.

Officials suspect the man fatally shot MIT professor Nuno Gomez, 47, in his Brookline home yesterday.

Located roughly 50 miles from Providence, both the victim and the suspect were reported to have studied at the same university in Portugal in the late 1990s.

The connection between the two cases was established when Valente's vehicle was identified through CCTV footage and a witness account from Brown University.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Norona reported that Valente was found with a satchel and two firearms.

Evidence discovered in a nearby vehicle matched that from the Providence scene, and that same car was seen close to the site of the professor's shooting.

Preliminary investigations suggest that Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but police have not commented on how long

He may have been inside that storage unit.

Although the suspect has been found dead, our investigation is far from over.

There are numerous questions that still need to be answered, said Special Agent in Charge Ted Docks, noting that approximately 500 agents had been deployed to aid local authorities.

Leah Foley, the U.S.

Attorney for Massachusetts, remarked that Valente was using a cell phone that obscured tracking