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Posted on 12/21/2025 6:42:25 AM PST by Red Badger
Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown and MIT shootings, had flashes of temper; former classmates describe him as confrontational and socially awkward
Twenty-five years ago, two promising physicists graduated from a prestigious science university in Lisbon. On Monday, one gunned the other down at his home outside Boston after firing on a classroom of Brown University undergrads, authorities say.
Claudio Neves Valente, the suspected shooter, once had a bright future. He graduated at the top of his college class, ahead of classmate Nuno Loureiro. But by the time Neves Valente confronted Loureiro at his Brookline, Mass., apartment building this past week, Loureiro’s career had soared while Neves Valente’s withered.
Loureiro was an acclaimed nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leading one of its largest labs. Neves Valente had been living in an unassuming home in Miami, far from the academic grandeur for which he’d once seemed destined.
Investigators don’t know why Neves Valente opened fire in the Brown classroom, nor what drove him to target Loureiro. After a six-day manhunt, police found Neves Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage unit in New Hampshire Thursday night.
“I don’t think we have any idea why now, or why Brown, why these students, why this classroom. That is really unknown to us,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha at a press briefing.
Neves Valente was born in the Portuguese town of Torres Novas, about 70 miles north of Lisbon. As a teenager, he was selected to represent Portugal at the International Physics Olympiad, according to the Portugal Physics Gazette. The wife of one of his teachers told local media that the teacher considered him his best student.
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The body must match the crimes.
two promising physicists
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Jealousy among super smart people... And sometimes they're too smart for their own good. This dude was a superstar in academia... Then he met 'reality' and he couldn't handle it. His classmate handled it swimmingly and became successful, while Claudio became a bitter and jealous failure. It's a simple tale that's repeated itself throughout history, and it will do so again and again in the future.
Physics requires hugely expensive equipment, so few people get to work as physicists.
What happened to him after being super smart at age 22? Strange.
Unless you’re a theoretician, then it requires pads of paper, pencils and pens. A computer & symbolic math program also could be helpful. Not expensive at all compared to an experimentalist.
Our masters need to get more creative.
They stole this plot from Breaking Bad.
Lol.
“””They fill in the timeline................””””
With major gaps.
2003 the shooter returns to Portugal.
2017 the shooter returns to USA and supposedly lives in Miami for an unknown period.
2025 the shooter shoots people in RI and MA
It seems to me the whereabouts of the shooter from 2017 to 2025 has been totally scrubbed.
1. Where was he working 2017-2025
2. Where did he live 2017-2025
3. Where did he get his money to live on 2017-2025
And a myriad of other questions regarding his whereabouts and livlihood.
BFL
Never bring a reactor to a gunfight!
Was Claudio receiving disability? If so..what is the disability - Mental or Physical or both.
Is he on any type of medications?
Where was he living for the last 20 years?
Does he have a family...parents...siblings?
Ever been married??
Why are they not giving out any personal information?
There's something they're holding back?? We know nothing of his life in Florida. Nothing of his work record.
Sounds kinda like the Unabomber.
They should check MIT prof's computers...bet there's some (kind recent) correspondence and MIT Prof blows him off.
To me, it would seem that the “soaring” Valente had a ton of mental issues.
My number one question is why did the moron shoot those college kids? What did they do to piss the boy off? I don’t think the boy was as smart as everyone thought he was.
These two were entangled particles.
You don’t have to be very good to teach physics on a high school level. I suspect that the shooter had severe unaddressed personality problems. (Dja think?)
Wigner said of Feynmann, “He’s Dirac, but he’s human.” I worked at MIT Lincoln Lab for about five years, and interfaced with them many time long before. Working at Raytheon in Massachusetts for 35 years I came in contact with MIT types at all levels. One thing you can say about them, they were human. I think MIT goes out of their way to weed out oddballs, the “Sheldon” types. This guy would not have fit in.
Just plain Sad...
Both foreigners. Immigration is out of control. It all needs to stops for several decades.
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