From the NY Times: Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said Thursday that they had connected the killings of two Brown University students and an M.I.T. professor to a man who was found dead in a storage unit in New Hampshire. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, went to a storage facility in Salem, N.H., shortly after he shot Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the M.I.T. professor who was found dead in his home in Brookline, Mass., on Tuesday, the authorities said. Three days earlier, Mr. Neves Valente had opened fire in an auditorium at Brown University in Providence, R.I., killing two students. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the authorities said...
...Mr. Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, entered the United States on a student visa in 2000 and became a permanent resident in 2017, according to the Providence police. Leah Foley, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said she believed that Mr. Neves Valente knew Dr. Loureiro from their time in the same academic program in Portugal from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Loureiro earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, according to his M.I.T. profile.
Mr. Neves Valente’s motive for the shooting at Brown University remained unclear, Peter F. Neronha, Rhode Island’s attorney general, said on Thursday. Mr. Neves Valente was briefly enrolled in a graduate physics program at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001, according to Christina Paxson, the university’s president. The authorities said there was no indication that Mr. Neves Valente knew... the two Brown students who were killed...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/brown-mit-shootings-what-we-know.html.
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Note: Prior posts on these events are at:
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/12/brown-u-shooting.html (contains link to the UCLA active shooter training video) and
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/12/another-day-another-academic-shooting.html.
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