Dec 19, 2025
What to KnowClaudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night at a New Hampshire storage facility from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Authorities said Valente was not only the man wanted in connection with last weekend’s deadly mass sho oting on the Brown University campus, but he also was suspected of killing MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday.Valente was a former Brown student and Portuguese national who attended university with Loureiro. Investigators said they believe he acted alone. A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief. Investigators believe he is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday, then killing MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro two days later at his home in the Boston suburbs, nearly 50 miles from Providence. Perez said as far as investigators know, Neves Valente acted alone. Brown University President Christina Paxson said Neves Valente was enrolled there as a graduate student studying physics from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the case: ...read more read less
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