{"id":194195,"date":"2025-12-19T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/brown-university-shooting-suspect-died-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-officials-say-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:17:22","slug":"brown-university-shooting-suspect-died-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-officials-say-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/brown-university-shooting-suspect-died-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-officials-say-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University shooting suspect died from self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials say – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claudio Neves Valente, who was found dead in storage facility, also killed MIT professor at his Boston-area home
A man suspected of killing two and wounding nine others at Brown University, and then killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and a former Brown student, was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said at a news conference. Perez said as far as investigators know, the suspect acted alone.
Leah Foley, the US attorney in Massachusetts, said at a separate news conference<\/a> in Boston that Neves Valente also killed Nuno FG Loureiro, the MIT physics professor who was shot in his home on Monday, two days after the Brown attack.
\u201cHe took his own life tonight,\u201d Perez said at a press conference, where he identified Valente and described the chain of events that had led law enforcement officers to the storage facility.
Peter Neronha, the attorney general of Rhode Island<\/a>, said Valente was found dead with a bag and two firearms, as well as evidence in the car \u201cthat matches exactly what we see at the scene here in Providence\u201d.
Neronha told reporters that a person with information about the suspected shooter played a key role in finding him. After officials released a photo of a person they wanted to talk to in the case about 24 hours ago, an individual \u201ccame forward to two Providence police officers over on the east side and said he had information that he was that person and that he had information that could help this case\u201d.
\u201cHe blew this case right open,\u201d Neronha said at a press conference. \u201cHe blew it open.\u201d
The person\u2019s information led authorities to a vehicle that helped them find a name, \u201cwhich led us to the photographs of that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing of our shooter here in Providence, that matched the satchel\u201d, Neronha explained.
Neronha said the suspect tried to evade law enforcement by changing license plates.
\u201cThis guy was changing plates was one of the reasons,\u201d he said. \u201cHe knew what he was doing \u2026 we got a Maine plate and we\u2019ve got a Florida plate on the same car.\u201d
The Brown University president, Christina Paxson, said Valente was enrolled at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He was admitted to the graduate school to study physics beginning in September 2000. \u201cHe has no current affiliation with the university,\u201d she said.
Physics classes typically require access to special equipment, Paxson said, which was located in the building where the shooting took place.
Two people were killed and nine were wounded in the mass shooting on Saturday at Brown.
The investigation shifted on Thursday when authorities said they were looking into a connection between the Brown mass shooting and an attack two days later near Boston that killed 47-year-old Loureiro.
Ted Docks, FBI special agent in charge of Boston, told reporters that authorities thought the suspect attended the same university in Lisbon as the MIT professor.
Peter Neronha, the attorney general of Rhode Island, said the suspect obtained lawful permanent resident status in September 2017.
Confirmation of the suspected shooter\u2019s death came hours after dozens of law enforcement agents convened on a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. Shortly before 8pm, journalist Eli Sherman reported<\/a>: \u201cMultiple law enforcement officials carrying weapons and wearing full tactical gear\u201d entered the storage facility.
The manhunt for the shooter had started afresh on Monday morning after the state\u2019s attorney general announced that a person of interest detained on Sunday had been released<\/a>, a development that Providence\u2019s mayor, Brett Smiley, conceded was \u201clikely to cause fresh anxiety for our community\u201d.
Smiley told CNN that while the release of the original person of interest had been a setback, \u201cthat didn\u2019t mean that the other pieces of the investigation were stopped or in any way paused\u201d.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, faced criticism<\/a> on Monday for rushing to social media to celebrate the bureau\u2019s work, only for the person arrested to be freed hours later.
The two students killed were identified<\/a> by family as Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year at Brown. Cook was vice-president of Brown\u2019s College Republicans of America chapter; Umurzokov dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n

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