Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say
a day ago
- #Brown University shooting
- #Claudio Valente
- #MIT professor killing
- Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, found dead in a storage facility from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Valente is suspected of killing an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts, days after the Brown University shooting.
- He was a former Brown University physics student (2000-2001) but had no current affiliation with the university.
- Video and financial evidence linked Valente to both the Brown and MIT shootings.
- Valente was granted lawful permanent resident status in 2017 after initially entering the U.S. on a student visa.
- Investigators recovered 44 spent shell casings and two magazines at the Brown shooting scene.
- MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, was fatally shot; he and Valente attended the same university in Lisbon.
- Valente had a Las Vegas address in 2017 but no known criminal history there.
- A person with crucial information about Valente helped investigators break the case open.
- Two guns were found with Valente's body in Salem, New Hampshire.
- Authorities confirmed Valente's death, stating there is no longer a threat to the public.
- Providence Mayor Brett Smiley thanked the community for their support during the investigation.
- Six of the nine wounded in the Brown shooting remain hospitalized in stable condition.
- Police released images of a person of interest wearing a knit cap and mask, asking for public help in identification.
- Investigators are probing potential links between the Brown and MIT shootings.