Brown, MIT Shooting Suspect ID’d After He’s Found Dead From Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both Saturday’s fatal shooting at the Ivy League school and Monday’s murder of an MIT professor, while also confirming he’s dead.
Valente, a Portuguese national, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday night following a nearly weeklong manhunt, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez announced at a press conference, five full days into the department’s frantic search for the killer.
The 48-year-old former graduate student was discovered dead with a satchel and two firearms inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility, where authorities carried out a search warrant around 9 p.m.
FBI Special Agent Ted Docks also revealed that Valente studied in Lisbon with murdered MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro, 47. The professor was killed on Monday in his $1.4 million townhouse in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts, and cops there announced late Thursday he was shot by Valente.
Loureiro was born and raised in Portugal and studied physics at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. (Read more from “Brown, MIT Shooting Suspect ID’d After He’s Found Dead From Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound” HERE)
