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Reddit post led police to Brown University shooting suspect
A former Brown student living homeless provided a tip via Reddit that led police to identify the shooting suspect, resulting in a $50,000 reward offer by the FBI.
- Investigators say a r/Providence subreddit post with security images became key in identifying Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspect in the Dec. 13 Brown University shooting that killed two students and wounded nine.
- A witness who posted as John described spotting a masked man at around 1.45pm in the Barus & Holley building and flagged a grey Nissan with Florida plates behind the Rhode Island Historical Society on Cooke Street.
- Tracing the Florida-plate Nissan led detectives to a Boston car rental company, where investigators obtained footage and rental records identifying Claudio Manuel Neves Valente and matched his clothing; satchel and two firearms were recovered at the storage unit.
- Officials confirmed Valente was found dead in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, and Peter Neronha said, 'We don't know why now, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom.'
- Authorities warned that misinformation on X, including unfounded claims by online users, complicated the multi-day search, while Portuguese Criminal Police cooperated due to Valente's ties to Brown and MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro.
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