Rhode Island officials on Thursday night confirmed that the suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University over the weekend and the shooting of a MIT professor on Monday was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Two students were killed, and nine others were injured in the Saturday shooting at the Ivy League school. No motive for either shooting has been identified so far.

The discovery occurred as law enforcement officers were preparing to enter a storage unit they believed belonged to the Brown University shooting suspect in Salem, New Hampshire.

Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez told reporters during a press briefing Thursday night that the suspect was a Portuguese national named Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, who was also a 48-year-old student at Brown. His last known address was in Miami, Florida.

Federal officials also told reporters that the shooter is believed to be the same person who fatally shot an MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro. Investigators were looking into a possible link earlier Thursday. 

Leah Foley, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said they believe the suspect attended the same academic program in Portugal as Loureiro. 

The suspect was additionally discovered with two guns and there was evidence in his car that appeared to confirm he was the Brown University shooter, according to Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha.

“He was found dead, with a satchel, with two firearms and evidence in the car that matches exactly what we see at the scene here in Providence,” Neronha said. 

The attorney general said an individual came to Providence police with information on the case that blew it "wide open."

“That person led us to the car, which led us to the name, which led us to the photographs of that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing of our shooter here in Providence that matched the satchel that we see here in Providence,” he said.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.