The dude had been pretty careful, using burner phones and credit cards in other names, but in the end it wasn't CSI high tech lab stuff but rather a regular ol' tip on Reddit that got the po-po on his tail. By the time the cops caught up to him, he'd assumed room temperature.
A man suspected of carrying out a pair of deadly attacks — one at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine more, and another that killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in his home — was found dead in a storage unit in New Hampshire on Thursday, the authorities said.
The suspect’s death, which the police said was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ended a five-day search that began on Brown’s campus in Providence, R.I. The case both captivated and rattled New England as investigators pieced together grainy surveillance footage and feared another burst of violence. The search stretched across state lines and ultimately hinged on witness interviews in Providence — including a Reddit user — along with records from a car-rental agency in Boston and a search warrant in Salem, N.H.
“Nothing can really fully bring closure to the lives that have been shattered over the past week, but this may allow our community to move forward,” Christina H. Paxson, Brown’s president, said at a news conference on Thursday night in Providence.
Dr. Paxson and law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student who was briefly enrolled at the university more than two decades ago. His last known address was in Miami.
BuT tHe iNtErNeT sWoRe hE'D yElLeD "aLoHa sNaCkBaR". *rolleyes*
