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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Investigators seek motive for shootings of MIT professor and Brown students

flowers and candles surround framed photos of a young man and young woman
A makeshift memorial for Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Monday. Photograph: Bing Guan/AFP/Getty Images

Investigators turned on Friday to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the prime suspect was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The body of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and formerly very briefly a student at Brown, was discovered in a New Hampshire storage facility on Thursday night after a five-day manhunt.

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