It was Thursday morning when investigators definitively decided the identical particular person opened fireplace on a research group at Brown College and, two days later, murdered an MIT professor — elevating fears amongst regulation enforcement officers that the killer could have had different supposed targets, in accordance with the highest federal regulation enforcement official in Boston.
“We had no concept if he had a success listing and these have been simply the primary two stops on his tour,” Leah Foley, the US Legal professional for the District of Massachusetts, advised ABC Information on Friday.
U.S. Legal professional for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley speaks with ABC Information, Dec. 19, 2025.
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Foley stated that the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was discovered lifeless within the New Hampshire storage unit with two 9mm Glock firearms geared up with inexperienced laser sights, 5 magazines with practically 200 rounds of ammunition and practically $900 in money. In his automobile, investigators stated they discovered extra ammunition and physique armor.
“This was extremely premeditated and he was positively geared up for the mission that he sought out to do,” Foley stated.
Claudio Neves Valente, suspect within the Brown College taking pictures in Windfall, on this undated handout picture launched, December 18, 2025.
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Neves Valente, 48, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police stated.
On Friday, an post-mortem was underway to find out how lengthy the suspect had been lifeless by the point his physique was discovered. Ballistics exams and DNA exams have been underway.
Investigators have been additionally looking out via the contents of three USB thumb drives discovered within the suspect’s automobile to see in the event that they contained clues a couple of motive. It’s unclear presently if the suspect had every other potential targets, in accordance with individuals accustomed to the investigation.
A gray Nissan automobile is parked at a storage facility, the place the Brown College shooter, recognized by authorities as Claudio Neves Valente, took his personal life, in Salem, New Hampshire, on this handout picture launched December 19, 2025.
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Foley stated investigators imagine Brown College and the MIT professor — Nuno F.G. Loureiro — have been intentional targets, however they have no idea why.
“I do not know that even when he had defined why, that that might be a solution that’s passable to anybody,” Foley stated. “He was evil.”
The likelihood that the killer may have struck once more infused the manhunt with new urgency. Federal brokers fanned out throughout 4 New England states and posted up at airports in Boston and Hartford.
Windfall Police Officers be part of state and federal regulation enforcement brokers trying to find the Brown College shooter, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025.
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“We had no concept if he was going to behave once more in New England or attempt to depart New England,” Foley stated.
Neves Valente had already switched license plates as soon as, in accordance with authorities. Within the automobile, investigators stated they discovered one other expired plate.
The suspect was a former Brown graduate pupil who attended the varsity some 25 years in the past, college officers stated. He had enrolled as a Ph.D pupil in Brown’s physics program in 2000 and attended for lower than a 12 months, earlier than occurring a depart of absence after which withdrawing.
Neves Valente and Loureiro have been each Portuguese nationals and had attended the identical physics engineering program at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, the varsity confirmed to ABC Information.
