A man shot and killed by sheriff's deputies in Hawthorne, Nev., has been positively identified as a federal fugitive from North Dakota.

An FBI fingerprint analysis identified the man as Kelly Stenstrum, 31, of Grand Forks, a Nevada state investigator said Friday.

Authorities on Thursday had stopped short of officially confirming that Stenstrum was the man shot by two Mineral County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday following a chase in vehicles and on foot.

Drew Wrigley, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota, said Stenstrum had died in Hawthorne but did not explicitly link the death to the shooting involving the two deputies. Nevada officials declined to confirm the identity until the fingerprint comparison was done and Stenstrum's family was notified.

"It was, in fact, Kelly (Stenstrum) that was involved in the fatal shooting," said Lt. David Jones of the Nevada Department of Public Safety's Investigation Division.

Stenstrum was wanted for not reporting to prison in Fort Dix, N.J., in late August, after leaving a Fargo halfway house where he had been staying since March. The U.S. Marshals Service had put out a warrant for his arrest and warned that he was armed and dangerous. He had been sentenced in July to nearly three years behind bars for stealing weapons in the Grand Forks area, some of which he sold in Wisconsin.

Stenstrum was a burglary and stolen vehicles suspect in Nevada. Authorities said he was shot and killed after failing to obey deputies' orders to surrender and put down the handgun he held. Authorities have not released any more details.

Jones said Stenstrum also is a suspect in stolen vehicle and burglary incidents in Colorado, and possibly in other states.

"We're working on several links (involving) his travels from … North Dakota," the investigator said. "We're still piecing all those together."