Authorities announced in a press conference late Thursday night that they found Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University, dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit.
According to police, the case is now believed to be connected to the killing of 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear fusion professor and Portuguese native, Nuno Loureiro, which took place two days later, on December 14, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, 45 miles from Providence, Rhode Island, where Brown University is located. This is a significant change from the FBI’s earlier statement that there seemed to be “no connection” between the two murders.
A car believed to have been rented by the person of interest in the Brown case is the same make and model of the car identified in connection with the MIT case.
Brown’s president Christina H. Paxson revealed in the press conference that Neves-Valente was enrolled as a graduate student in physics from 2000-2003 at Brown, mostly at Barus and Holley engineering building, where the mass shooting was carried out.
According to records from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Portuguese engineering school, a person named Claudio Neves-Valente was terminated from a monitor position in February of 2000, the same year that Loureiro graduated from IST.
This story has been updated.
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