Detailed timeline shows Claudio Neves Valente’s actions in Brown University and MIT professor shootings

An in depth timeline of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente’s actions earlier than, throughout, and after the Brown and MIT shootings has emerged within the proof shared by investigators after his dying.

Right here is the way it all unfolded, based on a Windfall Police affidavit on the investigation, U.S. lawyer Leah Foley and CBS Information protection.

Fall of 2000 and spring of 2001

Valente was admitted to the U.S. on a pupil visa and commenced graduate college at Brown College, the place he took physics lessons on the Barus & Holley constructing. He took a depart of absence in April 2001 and formally withdrew from the varsity in July 2003.

2017

Valente moved to the USA after receiving a inexperienced card by means of a visa lottery program. His final recognized residence was in Miami, Florida.

Monday, Nov. 17 (26 days earlier than the Brown taking pictures)

Valente is seen on surveillance video at an Alamo Lease a Automotive on Atlantic Avenue in Boston at 11:44 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 26 (17 days earlier than the taking pictures)

In accordance with Foley, Valente rented a resort room in Boston between November 26 and November 30.

Friday, Nov. 28 (15 days earlier than the taking pictures)

A Brown College custodian spots a person in a surgical masks and the identical garments because the suspect, within the Barus & Holley constructing. The person walked into a rest room, throughout from room 166, the auditorium the place the shootings will finally occur. The person was strolling with a limp.

Monday, Dec. 1 (12 days earlier than the taking pictures)

In accordance with the affidavit, Valente rented a grey Nissan Sentra with Florida plates from an Alamo Lease-a-Automotive on Atlantic Avenue in Boston at 11:36 a.m. Foley mentioned he then drove “to the neighborhood” of Brown College.

The Brown College custodian sees the identical man once more in Barus & Holley.

Foley mentioned Valente’s rental automobile was “noticed intermittently” between Dec. 1 and Dec. 12 within the space of Brown College.

Saturday, Dec. 13 — the day of the Brown College taking pictures

At 10:35 a.m., the suspect is seen on surveillance video sporting a masks, strolling at Manning and Cooke streets in Windfall, about 5 minutes away from the Barus & Holley constructing at Brown College.

He’s additionally noticed roaming on Cooke Avenue at 10:37 a.m., 10:56 a.m., 2 p.m. and a pair of:52 p.m.

At 2:16 p.m., he encountered one other individual, later recognized by police as “John,” on George Avenue. Valente then ran away from John, who ran after him. The 2 are then seen once more “in shut proximity.”

At 2:56 p.m., the suspect is seen on surveillance video strolling from Manning Avenue to Hope Avenue, crossing Hope Avenue right into a parking zone close to the Barus & Holley constructing.

At 3:15 p.m.. he’s noticed on Governor Avenue, George Avenue, Cooke Avenue and Benevolent Avenue, all inside three blocks of the Barus & Holley constructing.

Round 4 p.m., officers say he went into the Barus & Holley constructing and fired a number of photographs in an auditorium, killing college students Ella Cook dinner and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounding 9 others. Police recovered 44 spent 9-millimeter shell casings on the scene, based on the affidavit.

At 4:03 p.m., a digital camera on a Brown College shuttle bus confirmed him strolling away from the Barus & Holley constructing.

At 4:06 p.m., he’s noticed briefly on surveillance video strolling on the nook of Hope and Waterman streets. This brief video was the primary clip launched to the general public because the manhunt started.

At 4:08 p.m., he’s proven strolling on Waterman Avenue.

At 4:11 p.m., he was final proven on Pittman Avenue in Windfall. Foley mentioned Valente returned to Massachusetts between Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday, Dec. 14

An individual of curiosity is detained at a resort in Coventry, Rhode Island, however is later launched. Rhode Island Lawyer Normal Peter Neronha mentioned that evening that whereas some proof had “pointed to” that individual of curiosity, the proof now “factors in a unique route.”

Police continued viewing and accumulating video from surveillance cameras and doorbell cameras on the east facet of Windfall.

They decided the gunman is about 5 ft, 8 inches tall and so they noticed his “frequent gait and physique actions” together with a “distinctive stroll.”

Monday, Dec. 15 — the day of the MIT professor’s taking pictures

Windfall Police launched a number of movies and pictures displaying somebody they referred to as an individual of curiosity.

Detectives additionally interviewed among the taking pictures survivors at Rhode Island Hospital. Once they had been proven the photographs, they confirmed he appeared just like the gunman.

One lady “mentioned she acquired a very good have a look at the suspect. When supplied with a photograph of the Suspect, (she) rapidly froze, bodily pushed again, and have become emotional. She was noticed to be tearing up and shaking. She then confirmed that the picture confirmed the shooter.”

Investigators interviewed the Brown College custodian who had noticed a person who resembled the individual of curiosity on Nov. 28 and Dec. 1. They then reviewed Brown surveillance footage from Dec. 1, “the place they noticed a person matching the overall description of the suspect”

At 8:33 p.m., a person is shot at an residence on Gibbs Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts, simply exterior of Boston, about 50 miles from Brown College. He was rushed to Beth Israel Hospital the place he died Tuesday morning.

Foley later mentioned safety footage confirmed Valente “inside a half mile” of the house and “there’s video of him coming into that residence constructing” that evening.

She mentioned he was seen about an hour later, coming into a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, “sporting the identical garments that he had been seen sporting proper after the homicide.” In accordance with Foley, Valente rented the unit in November.

Tuesday, Dec. 16

The person who was shot and killed in Brookline is recognized as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal. He was 47 years outdated. No different info is launched to the general public concerning the taking pictures.

FBI Boston Particular Agent in Cost Ted Docks informed reporters in Windfall that “there appears to be no connection because it pertains to” the Brown taking pictures.

In accordance with Foley, in some unspecified time in the future, whereas he was in Massachusetts, Valente switched the plates on the Nissan Sentra to an unregistered plate out of Maine.

In the meantime, Windfall Police launched enhanced movies of the individual of curiosity, hoping to generate extra leads.

That very same day, their tip command heart was informed a couple of Reddit put up from an individual who claimed to have seen the suspected shooter.

“He blew this case proper open,” Rhode Island Lawyer Normal Peter Neronha would later say.

The person, recognized solely as “John” within the Windfall Police affidavit, mentioned he had a number of encounters with the suspect earlier than Saturday’s taking pictures.

The Reddit put up mentioned:

“I am being useless severe. The police must look into a gray Nissan with Florida plates, probably a rental. That was the automobile he was driving. It was parked in entrance of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historic Society on the Cooke St. facet. I do know as a result of he used his key fob to open the automobile, approached it after which one thing prompted him to again away. When he backed away he relocked the automobile. I discovered that odd so when he circled the block I approached the automobile that’s once I noticed the Florida plates. He was parked within the part between the gate of the RIHS and the nook of Cooke and George St.”

Based mostly on the tip, police took one other have a look at surveillance video within the space and noticed the Nissan.

New Hampshire Lawyer Normal John Formella mentioned Friday that primarily based on post-mortem outcomes, Valente is estimated to have died on Dec. 16. 

“The examination confirmed that Mr. Neves Valente died because of a gunshot wound of the pinnacle, and that his method of dying was suicide,” Formella mentioned in a press release. 

Wednesday, Dec. 17

Windfall Police requested for the general public’s assist in discovering and talking with a second individual, who was later recognized because the tipster, “John.”

They launched nonetheless pictures of him “interacting with the suspect” at 2:16 p.m. on Dec. 13, lower than two hours earlier than the Brown taking pictures.

Later Wednesday night, the Reddit poster approached police on the Brown College Alumni Corridor on Assembly Avenue and recognized himself. “John” went to the police station with officers and agreed to a recorded interview.

He mentioned he first encountered the suspect in a rest room on the Barus & Holley constructing between 1:45 and a pair of p.m. on Dec. 13, about two hours earlier than the taking pictures. He gave investigators a particularly detailed description of Valente and his garments, which he described as “inappropriate and insufficient for the climate.” John mentioned Valente left the constructing and went to the parking zone. He then adopted Valente up Manning Avenue.

John then went into additional element concerning the encounter described in his Reddit put up and informed officers the suspect would swap instructions each time they noticed one another, and that it was a “recreation of cat and mouse” between the 2 of them.

At one level, on George Avenue, they acquired inside two ft of one another.

In accordance with the affidavit, “John requested the Suspect, ‘Your automobile is again there, why are you circling the block?’ The Suspect responded, ‘I do not know you from no one,’ then Suspect repeatedly requested, ‘Why are you harassing me?'”

John mentioned he walked away and by no means noticed the person once more. Lower than two hours later, the gunman opened fireplace on college students within the Barus & Holley constructing.

Police confirmed John two images from a license-plate reader digital camera, referred to as Flock pictures, of the Nissan and he mentioned “Holy s—. That may be it.”

Police had obtained the photographs of the automobile after a Brown college member got here to them on Dec. 17 about seeing a Nissan with Florida plates driving “unusually gradual” within the space close to campus on Thursday, Dec. 11 — two days earlier than the taking pictures.

Police searched Flock cameras across the east facet of Windfall and located 14 pictures of the Nissan courting way back to Dec. 1.

Investigators traced the automobile’s license plate to the Alamo rental heart in Boston and located it was rented by Valente. ATF brokers went to the Alamo and began trying by means of their surveillance video. Video from Dec. 1 confirmed Valente.