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Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez received a standing ovation at the men's show Friday night. college basketball Game between Providence and Seton Hall.
Cheers rang out the day after alleged perpetrator who shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor earlier this week was found dead by local authorities in Salem, New Hampshire.
Smiley and Perez came under national scrutiny in the days after the shooting as their investigation included the arrest of an innocent man who was mistaken for a suspect and questionable transparency with the public throughout the manhunt.
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The investigation lasted six days before authorities located the suspected shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot in a Salem warehouse on Thursday.
The county waited days for answers and residents were on edge after the school sent students home early after the shooting.
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Detectives initially questioned Authorities said he was a suspect at an out-of-town hotel but have ruled him out as a suspect.
Police spent several days canvassing the area in search of surveillance video that Images of the person of interest appeared – a stocky, masked figure, about 5'8″ tall, who walked with a strange gait.
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Neves Valente, 48, was a Portuguese citizen who studied physics at Brown University from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001, according to Brown President Christina Paxson. But he went on leave and eventually left in 2003.
Neves Valente's motive has not been established and is still under investigation.
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