MERIDEN, Conn. — As the eyes of the nation were on Providence, R.I. in the days following the deadly Dec. 13 mass shooting on the campus of Brown University, lab scientists in Meriden made an impact from a state over.
The shooting claimed the lives of two Brown University students, injured nine other people and led to one of the largest manhunts this region has seen in recent memory.
It wasn’t until last Thursday that the body of suspected shooter Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was discovered in a storage facility in Salem, N.H. He had been dead for two days…