PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The man suspected of carrying out last weekend’s shooting at Brown University, an attack that killed two students and wounded nine others, has been found dead inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
The discovery came after nearly a week of an expanding, multi-agency search that gripped Providence and raised anxious questions about campus safety ahead of the holiday break. Authorities have not publicly released the suspect’s identity or described a motive. Fox News reported the suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, though officials have not issued a detailed public accounting of the circumstances.
The violence began Saturday, when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom in Brown’s engineering building before fleeing on foot into nearby streets. The attack left the campus shaken and forced a heavy police presence around the Ivy League university as students tried to resume classes and daily routines under heightened security.
In the days that followed, investigators said they relied heavily on residential doorbell and security-camera footage because the classroom building and surrounding area had limited surveillance coverage. Police released images and video of a masked person believed to be the shooter and repeatedly urged the public to review any footage from the area, including in the week leading up to the attack, saying they believed the suspect may have scouted the scene.
By Thursday night, law enforcement had converged on Salem, New Hampshire, roughly 20 miles north of Boston, where officers in tactical gear surrounded a storage facility as part of the investigation.
