Overview
- Providence police said the 48-year-old Portuguese national died by apparent suicide, and investigators recovered two firearms and evidence consistent with the Brown crime scene.
- Authorities identified him as a onetime Brown physics student and described him as a lone attacker, with the motive still unknown.
- U.S. prosecutors allege he also murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, earlier in the week.
- Video from a rented vehicle and public tips guided investigators to his identity and movements, leading to the warehouse in New Hampshire.
- The shooting in Brown’s Barus & Holley building killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine others, and the U.S. government has suspended the Green Card lottery following the case.