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