As investigators work to find a motive behind the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a popular MIT professor, former classmates of the accused killer described him as a brilliant but exceptionally difficult student. Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old suspect who police say was found dead Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) — The man suspected in a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was in the same academic program as the professor from Portugal before attending Brown on a student visa. Claudio Neves Valente was once a promising physics student, but he dropped out … Read more
On December 18, authorities announced that they had found the man responsible for both the fatal shooting at Brown University and the death two days later of Nuno FG Loureiro, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a storage facility in Salem, Massachusetts. Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) — Authorities said Thursday they are looking into a link between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That’s according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized … Read more
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities knocked on doors for video and dug through snow and dumpsters for other evidence that could lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage taken before and after the weekend attack that killed two students and wounded nine others. Officials on Monday … Read more
At a Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, news conference, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez shows a still image of the face of the mass shooting suspect Brown from video captured Saturday at Hope and Benevolent streets. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) Details about the man believed to have fatally shot two Brown University students and … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) — Rhode Island police said early Sunday they have a person of interest in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during finals, leaving two people dead and nine others injured. Providence Police Chief Colonel Oscar Perez confirmed at a press conference that the person detained was in his … Read more