Authorities announced in a press conference late Thursday night that they had found Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Salem, New Hampshire, storage unit.
According to police, the case is now believed to be connected to the killing of 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear science professor and Portuguese native Nuno Loureiro, who was shot two days later, on December 15, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, some 50 miles from Providence, Rhode Island, where Brown University is located. This is a significant change from the FBI’s earlier statement that there seemed to be “no connection” between the two shooting incidents.
A car believed to have been rented by the person of interest in the Brown case is the same make and model as the car identified in connection with the MIT case.
Brown’s president, Christina H. Paxson, revealed in the press conference that Neves Valente studied at Brown as a graduate student in physics from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001, before taking a leave of absence and formally withdrawing from the program in 2003. She noted that he spent much of his time in the Barus & Holley engineering building, where the mass shooting was carried out.
According to USA Today, records from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a Portuguese engineering school, show that a person named Claudio Neves Valente was terminated from a monitor position in February of 2000, the same year that Loureiro graduated from IST.
This story has been updated.
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