How was Claudio Manuel Neves Valente connected with Brown University?
Brown University President Christina Paxson outlined how a man believed to have killed two students and injured nine others in an engineering and physics building on campus Saturday was related to the Rhode Island institution.
Providence (Rhode Island) Police Chief Oscar Perez Jr. identified the suspect as 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente during a press conference Thursday night. He confirmed that Neves-Valente had taken his own life, and that he was the person of interest shown in numerous photos from police over the past week. Perez noted that Neves-Valente's last known address was in Miami, Florida.
Paxson said Brown University was able to confirm thatNeves Valenteattended Brown from the fall semester in 2000 through the spring semester in 2001 as a graduate student pursing a master's of science PhD program in physics.
She said he first started class in Sept. 1, 2000, took a leave in April 2001 and withdrew from the school July 31, 2003.
Neves Valente only took physics classes, Paxson said, and would have been very familiar with the building he is suspected to have entered and shot at students Saturday, Dec. 13.
"He has no current affiliation with the university or campus presence," Paxson said.
Providence's police chief, when later asked at the press conference what would have brought Neves Valente back to the campus more than 20 years after he left, said that is still under investigation.
It's believed Neves Valente also shot and killed MIT physics professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, who was found shot dead in his apartment complex in Brookline Monday night. Loureiro was also a Portuguese national, authorities said.
The Brown mass shooting left sophomore Ella Cook and first-year student Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov dead and nine other students injured.
As of Wednesday afternoon, one of the injured students remained in critical but stable condition at Rhode Island Hospital, officials said. Five more were in stable condition at the hospital, and three had been discharged.
Brown University Shooting, Dec. 13, 2025
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