Valente's body and two firearms were found Thursday evening in a warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire. The suspect in last Saturday's armed attack on students and employees of the University of Providence probably committed suicide.
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“We are 100 percent confident that we achieved our goal and that the case is closed from a prosecution standpoint,” said Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island. He added that the suspect rented a car in Boston. – We managed to find this car in New Hampshire. Based on the inspection, we found evidence that linked this person to the crime scene in Rhode Island, noted Neronha, quoted by the New York Times.
School shootings in the USA. Appalling data
The officers had earlier surrounded the area where they found an abandoned car with a license plate associated with the wanted person. Neighborhood resident Kathy Renzi admitted she didn't expect the manhunt to reach so close to her home. Investigators are also looking into possible links between the campus shooting and the murder of an MIT professor in Massachusetts. According to CNN, there is no clear evidence of this yet.
According to data collected by CNN, there were at least 75 school shootings in the US as of December 13, of which 43 were on college campuses and 32 were in primary and secondary schools. At least 31 people were killed and over 100 were injured.
