SALEM, New Hampshire ¨C The suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend is dead, a U.S. attorney said, as authorities investigate whether the same person killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days after the rampage at Brown.
Two other federal officials also confirmed the suspected Brown shooter was dead. It is believed that his ?body was discovered in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, about 20 miles (30 km) north of ?downtown Boston, ?where a large contingent of law enforcement officers descended Thursday night in ?an action related to the Brown University investigation.
One Justice Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter, said the suspected shooter had killed himself.
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