A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said.

Investigators believe Valente is responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who was fatally shot in his Brookline home on Monday, a law enforcement source said.

Authorities have not formally confirmed a connection between the two shootings.

Two people were killed and nine were wounded in the mass shooting Saturday at Brown University.

The investigation had shifted on Thursday when authorities said they were looking into a connection between the Brown mass shooting and an attack two days later near Boston that killed MIT professor Nuno FG Loureiro.

The FBI previously said it knew of no links between the cases.

Brown University president Christina Hull Paxson said the suspect was a former student.

Helping to blow the lid off the case, Rhode Island attorney general Peter Neronha said, was the coming forward of a second individual who was identified in proximity to the suspect after a press conference on Wednesday.

“When you crack it, you crack it. That person led us to the car, led us to the name," Neronha said.

Although Brown officials say there are 1,200 cameras on campus, the attack happened in an older part of the engineering building that has few, if any, cameras.

And investigators believe the shooter entered and left through a door that faces a residential street bordering campus, which might explain why the cameras Brown does have didn’t capture footage of the person.

Loureiro, who was married, joined MIT in 2016 and was named last year to lead the school's Plasma Science and Fusion Centre, where he worked to advance clean energy technology and other research.

The centre, one of MIT's largest labs, had more than 250 people working across seven buildings when he took the helm.

He was a professor of physics and nuclear science and engineering.

He grew up in Viseu, in central Portugal, and studied in Lisbon before earning a doctorate at London's Imperial College, according to MIT.

He was a researcher at an institute for nuclear fusion in Lisbon before joining MIT, the university said.

“He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader, and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner,” Dennis Whyte, an engineering professor who previously led MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Centre, told a campus publication.

Loureiro had said he hoped his work would shape the future.

“It’s not hyperbole to say MIT is where you go to find solutions to humanity’s biggest problems,” Loureiro said when he was named to lead the plasma science lab last year. “Fusion energy will change the course of human history.” (AP/Reuters)