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Gunman in Brown University Shooting Found Dead, Linked to MIT Killing

Claudio Neves-Valente, a former Brown physics student, killed two students and an MIT professor, injuring nine others, before taking his own life, police said.

  • On Saturday, authorities identified Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, as the suspect in a shooting at Brown University's Barus & Holley engineering and physics building that killed two students and wounded nine.
  • Records show Valente enrolled in Brown's graduate physics program starting Sept. 1, 2000, took a leave in April 2001, withdrew July 31, 2003, and attended classes in the Barus & Holley building.
  • Tracing a rental car revealed Providence police used rental agency surveillance footage and Flock Safety's network of more than 70 cameras to identify Valente after a Brown custodian's tip.
  • Authorities confirmed the suspect's connection to MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was shot in his Brookline home, and they linked Valente to the same academic programme in Portugal.
  • At the president's direction, USCIS will pause the diversity visa lottery programme, which officials said Valente entered in 2017 and was issued a green card, with up to 50,000 visas annually.
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Washington, Dec 18 (EFE).- The prosecution of Boston, USA, said Thursday that Portuguese Claudio Neves-Valente murdered Professor Nuno FG Loureiro of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), two days after committing the shooting at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, although the motives for the crimes are unknown. During a press conference, prosecutor Leah Foley indicated that authorities had probable cause to accuse Neves-Vale…

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Reuters broke the news in United Kingdom on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
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