MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — The man suspected of committing a mass shooting at Brown University and killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor is believed to have recently lived in South Florida.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a six-day search that spanned several New England states.

The attacker at Brown killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on the Providence, Rhode Island campus on Saturday. Some 50 miles away, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed Monday night in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Valente and the 47-year-old Loureiro attended the same academic program at a university in Portugal between 1995 and 2000.

Records show Valente’s last known address was a home on Northeast 200th Street, near 13th Avenue, in the unincorporated Ives Estates area of northeast Miami-Dade.

Most neighbors did not immediately recognize Valente by name or by photo. Someone else now lives in the home.

But news of his past residency came as a surprise.

“I’m shocked. I’m really shocked. I had no idea anything was going on there,” resident Dan Hennis said.

Another neighbor said, “His face does look kinda familiar now that you’re telling me he was here. I might’ve (seen him).”

Officials with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Local 10 News that deputies were “requested to assist in locating a suspect connected to the Brown University shooting.”

“Deputies responded to a location provided through a tip; however, the search did not yield any results,” an agency spokesperson said. “MDSO remains committed to assist(ing) local, state, and federal law enforcement partners in their investigations whenever requested.”

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said there are still “a lot of unknowns” regarding Valente’s motive for the killings.

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