Brown University shooting live updates: Suspect, also accused in MIT professor murder, is found dead after manhunt
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Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and one-time Brown physics student, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said.
What we know about both shootings
- The suspect in the weekend shooting at Brown University and the fatal shooting of an MIT professor days later is dead, law enforcement officials said Thursday night.
- Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire.
- He was found after a five-day search that began after two students were killed and nine more were injured at Brown.
- Neves Valente is also suspected of killing Nuno Loureiro, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, at his Boston-area home on Monday night. Officials said it appeared the men attended the same university in Portugal.
- The suspect had no current affiliation with the university but was enrolled at Brown from fall 2000 to spring 2001 in a Ph.D. program.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is directing a pause in the "diversity immigrant visa" program after it was revealed that the suspect previously entered the U.S. through it.
Suspect in Brown shooting found dead: Latest details
The suspect in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and the fatal shooting of an MIT professor days later is dead, law enforcement officials said Thursday night.
Authorities found the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage facility in New Hampshire.
The discovery marked the end of a five-day manhunt that began after two students were killed and nine more injured at Brown.
What we know about the Brown shooting suspect who is also accused of killing MIT professor
The man suspected of killing two students and wounding nine others in a shooting at Brown University before fatally shooting a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later was found dead today in a New Hampshire storage unit, officials said.
Claudio Neves Valente. Providence Police
The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, died by suicide, Providence, Rhode Island, Police Chief Oscar Perez told reporters Thursday.
Valente, who is also accused of killing an MIT professor days after the Rhode Island campus shooting, was found in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, roughly 80 miles north of Providence, that authorities had obtained warrants to search, said Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston field office.
Noem says she’s pausing a visa program after Brown shooting
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said tonight she is directing a pause to a “diversity immigrant visa” program after it was revealed the Brown shooting suspect had received one in the past.
Valente, 48, a Portuguese national, got the visa in a lottery in 2017, a Providence police detective wrote in an affidavit.
He was granted lawful permanent resident status the same year, the affidavit says.
Valente was admitted to the U.S. as an F-1 student in 2000 to attend a graduate program at Brown, the affidavit states.
“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem wrote on X.
USCIS is an acronym for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Congress passed the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program as part of the Immigration Act of 1990.
The purpose was for a program “specifically for aliens from countries with lower rates of admission as immigrants to the United States,” USCIS says on its website.
President George H.W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990 into law. The law, which passed with bipartisan support, also established a program for skilled workers and temporary protected status for people from countries affected by disasters or wars.
What we know about the Brown University victims
The two Brown University students killed in a mass shooting Saturday were identified as Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook.
Umurzokov, 18, was from Uzbekistan, in central Asia, and “had a bright future” ahead of him, said his aunt Karina Gabit, who described him as “very kind” and smart.
Cook, 19, from Birmingham, Alabama, was remembered by her church there as “an incredible, grounded, faithful, bright light” who encouraged those around her.
Six of the nine people wounded in Saturday’s attack are still at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence and listed as stable, officials said, as of Thursday afternoon. The three others have been released.
Timeline of suspect before and after shootings
The suspect in the Brown University and MIT professor shootings had rented a hotel room and a car in Boston and drove to Rhode Island on Dec. 1, the U.S. attorney in Boston said.
U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley laid out the following timeline at a news conference tonight, as alleged.
Dec. 1
The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, rents a Nissan Sentra in Boston and drives to the vicinity of Brown University.
His car is “observed intermittently” between Dec. 1 and Dec. 12.
Dec. 13
Valente opens fire at the physics building at Brown University, during a study session, killing two people and wounding nine others.
Between Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, Valente returns to Massachusetts.
Dec. 15
Valente is accused of killing MIT physics professor Nuno Loureiro at Loureiro’s home in Brookline, a city just outside Boston.
Valente then switches the plates to an unregistered plate out of Maine.
“Immediately following Professor Loureiro’s murder, Neves Valente drove to a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire,” Foley said.
Valente had rented the storage unit in Salem, which is around 40 miles away by car, in November, she said.
Dec. 18
Valente’s body is found in the storage unit.
