Posted on 12/19/2025 7:03:12 AM PST by Twotone
Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island and the murder of an MIT professor in Massachusetts, while also confirming he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Valente, a Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night following a nearly weeklong manhunt spurred by the shooting Saturday that killed two Brown students, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez announced at a press conference.
The 48-year-old former graduate student was discovered dead with a satchel and two firearms inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility, where authorities carried out a search warrant around 9 p.m.
FBI Special Agent Ted Docks also revealed that Valente studied in Lisbon with murdered MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro, 47. The professor was killed on Monday in his $1.4 million townhouse in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts, and cops there announced late Thursday he was shot by Valente.
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Here’s an interesting wrinkle.
“If you look at Brown’s course planner, it shows the physics final was scheduled for that exact same date and time, but he reportedly went to the lecture location instead of the final by mistake, where an economics review was taking place.”
https://x.com/Nerdy_Addict/status/2001895852659421695
What was the endgame of Claudio? What did he hope to achieve by commiting this monstrous cold blooded act of murder?
Graduate school can make some people insane. Wonder if that’s what happened here?
The whole thing seems bizarre to me. Crazy person with a grudge against the university & his old fellow student? Just bizarre...
Payback for perceived slights that in his mind caused his never making it as a Physicist, then suicide.
An astute Providence-area radio host, Chas Calenda, bravely confronted Brown U officials and l/e.
Calenda had critical info about Brown intentionally disabling surveillance systems wrt DEI concerns.
Dam lefties.....obsessed w/ DEI
Brown University was under pressure from the far-left wrt the school’s security system
<><>the left whined security data would be used by the feds
<><>to (a) identify radical leftists expressing antisemitic sentiments,
<><>and (b) to identify the immigration status of persons on campus.
<><>this lefty atrocity is not just isolated to Brown University.
<><>Multiple muni govts, private and municipal agencies have received the same demand
<><>there’s an ongoing lefty effort to block ICE’s valiant operations
<><>The mass shooting at Brown is leading to public awareness of the left’s rank stupidity
<><>lefty stupidity has been spreading rapidly in the last several months.
<><>bleeding heart “civil rightists” and “humanitarian” whining made Brown disable surveillance.
<><>the issue appears via the Rhode Island ACLU making the same demand in Oct.
Imagine the poor schmuck that has to clean up that space....................
So Steve Bannon is a conspiracy wackjob, blowhard fool. Got it.
The target was the VERY WEALTHY MIT professor...Brown was a diversion.
After Brown...the LE set up a small perimeter...and that is visible. All he had to do was stay out of the perimeter and watch.
Nuno Loureiro was into fusion research and the Brown University shooting was a distraction so we wouldn’t focus on the Big Green lobby taking out their fusion competition. (typed in my best conspiracy theory voice -— but wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be true)
A loser and a failure with mental illness - this was his payback for being a personal loser and his mental illness allowed him to commit crimes.
Did he specifically target the prominently conservative young woman, the sophomore, who died in the attack?
I don’t think so. They knew each other years ago, according to the story. More like rage over a friend’s success.
The killer apparently “won” the green card diversity lottery that allowed him entry into the US, which President Trump has ordered suspended:
“President Trump ordered the suspension of a green card lottery program that enabled the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting and killing of an MIT professor to live in the U.S, a top official announced late Thursday.
Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery, previously attempting to end it in 2017 after a terrorist attack in New York involving an immigrant who entered through the same program.”
You can be sure Democrats will tight tooth and nail to keep the “diversity green card” program flowing. They need all the votes they can get for 2028.
I think Claudio wanted to return to Brown to teach...went to the MIT Prof for a recommendation and the MIT guy blew him off....
Had a wife and three children .
Something in my head is strongly suggesting a ‘gay’ angle to this story.
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