NEW: NH Medical Examiner Says Brown Mass Shooter Died Two Days Earlier

NEW: NH Medical Examiner Says Brown Mass Shooter Died Two Days Earlier

On Thursday night, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez claimed that "good old police" work tracked 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown mass shooting, to a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where he was found dead. 

Details are now emerging following the autopsy of Brown University and MIT gunman Neves Valente. New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella announced a new timeline.

According to the New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner’s office, Neves Valente did, in fact, die from a gunshot wound to the head, which has now been ruled a suicide, but his suicide was not a result of being under pressure from a closing loop of law enforcement.

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He had died two days earlier, on Tuesday, December 16. 

This dramatically changes the narrative put forth publicly by law enforcement.

“The teams worked very hard. This was always going to be an investigation where something was going to break through…we were going to pull threads and gather evidence," said Neronha on Thursday night. 

"Within an hour [of issuing the photo of the person of interest on Wednesday] that person came forward," said Neronha. 

"He said he had information that could help this case. He blew this case wide open. When you crack it, you crack it. This person led us to the car, which led us to the name, which led us to the photographs of the individual," said Neronha. 

By that time, Neves Valente was already dead.