Brown University and MIT shooting suspect found dead; identified as former grad student

[ad_1] The suspect in final weekend's mass capturing at Brown College that left two college students useless and 9 others wounded was discovered useless Thursday -- and authorities mentioned he is similar man who gunned down an MIT professor two days after the Rhode Island campus capturing.

Throughout a information convention Thursday, authorities recognized the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate scholar, who attended the college some 25 years in the past.

Officers mentioned he took his personal life. His physique was found in a New Hampshire storage unit following an intense, multi-state manhunt that had stretched on for days.

Windfall Police Officers be part of state and federal regulation enforcement brokers looking for the Brown College shooter, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025.

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"Tonight our Windfall neighbors can lastly breathe a bit of simpler," Mayor Brett Smiley informed reporters at at information convention Thursday evening.

Officers mentioned there isn't any proof Valente was working with anybody else, describing intimately his actions main as much as and after the capturing, together with steps he took to hide himself from authorities.

Officers haven't but supplied a motive for the back-to-back shootings that left residents of elements of New England on edge for days.

Former Ph.D scholar who frolicked in engineering constructing Brown College President Christina Paxson mentioned Neves Valente had enrolled as a Ph.D scholar in Brown's physics program in 2000 and attended for lower than a yr, earlier than occurring a depart of absence after which withdrawing. She mentioned it was believed, as a physics scholar, he spent appreciable time within the Barus & Holley engineering constructing that was focused within the capturing on Saturday.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, has been recognized as the person fatally shot at a house in Brookline on Dec. 15, 2025.

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Valente, who entered the U.S. in 2000 on a scholar visa, obtained lawful permanency in April 2017, authorities mentioned.

Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem mentioned the suspect was granted a visa by way of the range lottery program in 2017 and mentioned that DHS could be pausing this system instantly “to make sure no extra People are harmed,” in response to an announcement posted on X early Friday morning.

"This heinous particular person ought to by no means have been allowed in our nation. In 2017," mentioned Noem.

He had no present affiliation with the college, in response to officers.

How 2 puzzling crimes have been linked Authorities in Massachusetts confirmed Valente can be the suspected gunman within the demise of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, who was fatally shot on Monday evening within the lobby of his constructing in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Each males have been natives of Portugal, and U.S. Lawyer for Massachusetts Leah Foley informed reporters at a information convention late Thursday evening it is believed Valente and Loureiro studied in the identical tutorial program in Portugal within the Nineties.

It was solely the previous day or two that the "hyperlink started to be established," between the 2 puzzling crimes, Foley informed reporters as authorities.

Valente's final recognized handle was in Miami, however he had rented a resort room in Boston in late November, Foley mentioned. On Dec. 1, he rented a grey Nissan Sentra, which was later noticed intermittently within the campus space over the subsequent 12 days main as much as the capturing, she mentioned.

How investigators tracked suspect down Windfall Police Chief Oscar Perez mentioned native police helped tracked down Valente thanks, partly, to surveillance video and an in depth tip a couple of automobile being pushed by an individual who famous odd conduct by the suspect.

Manuel Neves Valente, 48, seen inside a automobile rental facility.

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"I’m being useless severe. Police have to look into a gray Nissan with Florida plates, presumably a rental," the tipster informed police, in response to a grievance launched by Rhode Island authorities. "That was the automobile he was driving.”

The tip and surveillance video, together with using license-plate reader expertise led investigators to a automobile rental company in Massachusetts. There, police obtained a duplicate of the rental settlement with the suspect's identify, in addition to video of the suspect that matched the movies of the individual of curiosity seen on the Brown College campus on the day of the capturing.

An FBI Proof Response Staff searches the grounds exterior the location of the Brown College capturing, because the manhunt continues for the gunman, in Windfall, Rhode Island, December 15, 2025.

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What occurred at New Hampshire storage facility Authorities mentioned that discovery finally led them to a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, on the border with Massachusetts, the place Valente had rented a unit. Foley, the U.S. lawyer, mentioned investigators consider Valente had fled to the storage facility shortly after the capturing of the MIT professor on Monday evening.

By Thursday evening, investigators have been closing in on the storage facility, acquiring a search warrant, which FBI SWAT groups executed shortly earlier than 9 p.m.

Authorities mentioned Valente's physique was present in a storage unit subsequent to the one he had rented. He was discovered with a satchel containing two firearms.

The 2 Brown college students who have been killed have been recognized as 19-year-old Ella Prepare dinner and 18-year-old MukhammadAziz Umurzokov. They have been each fatally struck by gunfire when the shooter burst into the first-floor auditorium the place a overview session for an economics course was happening.

The constructing was unlocked for exams being held within the constructing on the time of the capturing, the college president mentioned.

The USA flag flies at half-staff as an indication of mourning for the sufferer's of Saturday's capturing, on the campus of Brown College, Dec. 15, 2025, in Windfall, R.I.

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Authorities additionally mentioned Thursday somebody confronted the gunman in a toilet within the constructing and mentioned he felt like he did not belong there.