Posted on 12/18/2025 9:35:08 PM PST by Morgana
The gunman who killed two students at Brown University was found dead in a storage unit after murdering an MIT professor as their decades-old connection was revealed.
The suspect - 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente - was revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island more than 20 years ago.
He had attended Brown to pursue a masters of science in physics from 2000 to 2001, before he took a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew from the school.
It remains unclear why Neves Valente opened fire at the Rhode Island school, killing Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, of Virginia, and Ella Cook, of Alabama, 19.
But University President Christina Paxson said it was likely he took classes inside that building when he attended the school.
Neves Valente opened fire during a study session at the Ivy League's School of Engineering Barus and Holley Building on December 13.
Two days later, he fatally shot MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro inside his Boston home.
Authorities revealed that gunman original target was Loureiro and the pair had attended the same school in Portugal from 1995 to 2000.
It was unclear what the shooter's motive was or what his relationship with Loureiro had been.
The suspect was ultimately found dead after a six-day manhunt, when authorities located a vehicle he used parked outside of a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire - more than 80 miles from the Ivy League school.
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Why do the Brown murders (where only incompetent policing kept him from being caught) before the MIT murder?
Of course....
I was 100% sure he was not a H1-B visa worker.
You’re right.
It’s very weird. The Media (and Fox) are going to make the Homeless guy the Hero - mark my words. However, if he had called the Police, 3 people would be alive and all the injured would not be disabled and/or suffering.
The Police Chief guy reminded me of Moose. Moose from DC and the DC Snipers.
Nah, guy was a pro. Doubletap to the back of the head.
I find all of this too convenient. Do not believe the Brown shooter was this guy. Utter BS coverup crap from LE at Brown.
I’m going to burn forever for laughing at that one.
>> Do you actually in your heart of hearts have the audacity to think that your Government}To Wit The Government of The United States of America would tell you a falsehood?
ROFL! I have “The Audacity Of Hope” (yuk yuk) to believe that someday the Gubmint will tell me the TRUTH. I’m grateful that President Trump and his team, in spite of the forces of evil arrayed against them, are every day exposing and eliminating more of the gubmint liars. Trump has a hard job ahead of him. Keep him in your prayers!
>> A Portuguese man o’ war?
You sure “he” is a man?
Neat and organized? What are you smoking?
There are more loose ends to this thing than you can shake a stick at.
The one thing that may help sort it all out is that this guy was apparently using his cell phone.
A) Big mistake.
B) What were his communications (content) and with whom?
He also failed badly with his transport (too easily tracked.)
Chercher la femme
This article also reports: "Authorities revealed that gunman's original target was Loureiro and the pair had attended the same school in Portugal from 1995 to 2000. It was unclear what the shooter's motive was or what his relationship with Loureiro had been."
Yeah, I'd like to know the nature of their relationship, whether they were reconnected since Valente had come here. Why would you out of the blue, murder someone you hadn't seen in 25 years? There's more to this story.
The Liberty Daily posted an article which included an X post by Kristi Noem, claiming this guy came here "through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card." She just paused that lottery.
One question is, did he actually attend Brown University in 2000-2001? And if he did and dropped out, what the hell has he been doing to retain his green card status...unless it had actually expired.
I have lack of assimilation fatigue. I was at the tire repair shop yesterday and two young people were trying to get a tire fixed on their hoopty junk ass shitbox. I started to use google translate on my phone - where you let them speak and it translates and speaks back in English and they were not very cooperative of very sociable. Finally I just said screw it. Let them sort it out.
So, where did he go in 2001 when he took leave from the school?
Was it before or after 911?
That Press Conference looked like the Island of Misfit toys.
Two of the geniuses had already told us that the MIT shooting was not related. And they said there was no threat to the Public.
Saying Fox and "experts" in the same sentence is a stretch.
I finally turned it off when Ingraham and Watters were spinning in so many directions I had to take a hand full of Dramamine.
The Fox reporter on the site, a lovely young woman, has the reporting skills of a high school news paper student. If she said mid life crisis, I would not be surprised.
More like Baghdad Bob.
He must have been a DEI hire for his ability to have English as his second language.
“ Very strange why he would seemingly target two kids who weren’t even born when he attended Brown.”
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As CRAZY as it seems, he probably thought they were PHYSICS STUDENTS studying in the building where he himself once studied physics. Crazy, right? IMHO it’s not unusual for crazy people to do crazy things that make no sense.
Re: 30 - wasting your time. There’s a group of people that have their theories on what happened and not much will change that. For some people that theory is massive government coverup.
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