by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2025 Real World News
Investigators on Thursday identified the suspect in fatal shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Providence police said the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, was tracked to a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire where he was found dead allegedly from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Neves-Valente, 48, was a Portuguese national and studied at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 to study physics, according to Brown President Christina Paxson. But he went on a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew in 2003.
He was found dead after law enforcement officers in tactical gear were seen outside a storage unit linked to him.
Authorities said Neves-Valente was suspected as the masked gunman who barged into a lecture hall at Brown University in Providence around 4 p.m. Saturday and killed two students, Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia, injuring nine more. Authorities said they recovered 9mm bullet casings from the scene.
Leah B. Foley, the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, later confirmed that Neves-Valente was suspected in the murder of MIT professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, who was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds in his apartment in Brookline, a short drive from campus. He was pronounced dead at a hospital the following morning.
“This evening at approximately 9 p.m., federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire, in search of Claudio Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national we believed shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts,” Foley told reporters Thursday night. “Federal agents found Neves-Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
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