The suspect in final weekend’s mass capturing at Brown College was recognized as a 48-year-old former graduate scholar who had studied on the college some 25 years in the past.
Throughout a information convention Thursday, authorities recognized the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente and mentioned he took his personal life as authorities have been closing in to make an arrest.
Authorities mentioned Valente can be believed to be the killer of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, who was gunned down at his house two days after the assault on the college.
Windfall Police Officers be part of state and federal regulation enforcement brokers looking for the Brown College shooter, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025.
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An FBI official instructed reporters it is believed Valente and the MIT professor attended the identical college in Portugal.
Officers in Massachusetts have been anticipated to offer extra particulars in a while Thursday.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, has been recognized as the person fatally shot at a house in Brookline on Dec. 15, 2025.
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Legislation enforcement sources instructed ABC Information that the suspect was discovered lifeless inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday evening on the fifth day of a large manhunt.
Brown College President Christina Paxson mentioned Valente enrolled as a Ph.D scholar in Brown’s physics program in 2000 and attended for a short while. She mentioned it was believed, as a physics scholar, he spent appreciable time within the Barus & Holley engineering constructing focused within the assault that left two college students lifeless and wounded 9 others.
He had no present affiliation with the varsity.
Windfall Police Chief Oscar Perez mentioned Valente was a local of Portugal with a final identified handle in Miami.
Authorities mentioned Valente entered the U.S. in 2000 on a scholar visa and obtained lawful everlasting residency in 2017.
Police in Windfall mentioned they tracked down Valente due to a surveillance video and a tip a few car that led to a automotive rental store in Massachusetts. There police obtained a replica of the rental settlement with the suspect’s title, in addition to video of the suspect that matched the movies of the individual of curiosity seen on the Brown College campus on the day of the capturing.
Manuel Neves Valente, 48, seen inside a automotive rental facility.
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On Saturday afternoon, two Brown college students have been killed and 9 others have been wounded when the gunman burst right into a first-floor classroom and opened hearth earlier than fleeing the scene, sparking a large manhunt that stretched on for days.
An FBI Proof Response Crew searches the grounds outdoors the positioning of the Brown College capturing, because the manhunt continues for the gunman, in Windfall, Rhode Island, December 15, 2025.
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The constructing was unlocked for exams being held within the constructing on the time of the capturing, the college president.
Authorities mentioned Thursday somebody confronted the gunman in a rest room within the constructing and mentioned he felt like he did not belong there.
The USA flag flies at half-staff as an indication of mourning for the sufferer’s of Saturday’s capturing, on the campus of Brown College, Dec. 15, 2025, in Windfall, R.I.
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On Monday evening, the MIT professor, additionally a local of Portugal, was discovered shot at his house within the upscale Boston suburb of Brookline, officers mentioned. Loureiro, 47, died on Tuesday on the hospital.
