Posted on 12/20/2025 5:36:06 PM PST by Red Badger
The suspected gunman behind both the deadly shooting spree at Brown University and the killing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor was already dead for two days before authorities found his body inside a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said Friday.
Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University graduate student, died Tuesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. Police discovered his body Thursday night inside a storage unit in Salem following a nearly weeklong manhunt.
Authorities identified Valente as the suspect who opened fire inside a Brown University lecture hall Saturday, killing two students and wounding nine others. The victims were Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old Uzbek American freshman.
Valente had attended Brown more than 20 years earlier as a doctoral student but dropped out in 2003 after completing three semesters, according to an affidavit.
Two days after the Brown shooting, Valente traveled roughly 50 miles and fatally shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro inside his Brookline, Massachusetts townhouse, authorities said.
Valente and Loureiro previously studied together at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal, though authorities have not publicly identified any motive connecting the killings.
“I don’t think we have any idea why now, or why Brown, or why these students, why this classroom,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha at a Thursday night press conference, according to Reuters.
Witnesses reported Valente made strange “barking” noises as he entered the Brown lecture hall and began firing, discharging more than 40 rounds, according to Neronha. Other witnesses told authorities he did not speak at all.
Authorities said Valente traveled from Florida and rented the New Hampshire storage unit in November. He also rented a gray Nissan with Florida license plates Dec. 1, which was later reportedly spotted multiple times near Brown’s campus through Dec. 12.
Valente initially arrived in August 2000 on an F-1 student to attend Brown University. He subsequently obtained U.S. lawful permanent residency in April 2017 through the Diversity Immigrant Lottery, according to the affidavit.
The Trump administration moved Thursday to suspend the green card lottery program Valente used to obtain residency.
“In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X. “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.”
The investigation into the killings remains ongoing.
This goofball was living in his storage unit...so it seems.
Saved a lot in court costs. Don’t forget the housing and food.
That undersized, mumbling police chief was so proud of himself for confidently and definitely stating the perp had just died. Actually he was already dead the previous Tuesday. Closest the nebbish came to being competent and informed. What a loser. Colonel Oscar L. Perez Jr.
“discharging more than 40 rounds”
Wow. Three or four mags? Or multiple weapons?
IF he’s the culprit. Is there solid evidence that the guy who did the murders is the dead guy in the storage unit?
I think the Brown U student was targeted politically. The professor was more personal, almost like an affair gone bad
I suspect that he may have been envious of Dr. Loureiro’s success.
It seems they knew each other in Portugal and shared an interest in physics. But while Loureiro went on to earn his doctorate and a faculty position at MIT, recently being named laboratory director, the killer Valente dropped out of graduate school and was basically a loser. He could not stand to see his former friend/acquaintance enjoying such success.
I think the shootings at Brown were a result of the same thought process. He had to get revenge on the school where he failed.
Are any locals ANGRY at the dimwitted horse faced Mayor Smiley for: (news story)
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley stated that there was no immediate or ongoing credible threat to the public and encouraged residents to continue with their normal routines, including shopping and dining.
During press conferences after the December 2025 shooting, Mayor Smiley repeatedly emphasized that while the event was tragic, law enforcement had not received any specific, credible information indicating a wider danger to the community. He explicitly mentioned that people could “safely go to church in the morning” and did not need to cancel holiday plans or avoid local businesses.
“Ever since the initial call now a day and a half ago, we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community. So, the status of safety in our community remains unchanged, and we believe that you remain safe in our community
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Me:
So to make sure the city fathers (and Karens) could make money as usual, people going out were actually risking their lives. The first “person of interest” was not the perp. That means the perp could shoot anyone else he wished in addition.
The shooter seemed to just shoot at random students at the study session after putting 10 rounds into the head of the College Republican woman Ella Cook and the man near her MukhammadAziz Umurzokov. Others were rushed to the emergency room with gun wounds.
Anyone who was shopping or going out to restaurants the next few days may have been killed, just as the Professor all the way in Massachusetts was shot at home.
So....Mayor notwithstanding, the parents and students and townspeople could be ANGRY at that Mayor now.
standard op: assassinate the assassins
I read that Barack Obama was on his friends list
The FBI found the guy cuz the smell was so bad the neighbors complained.
Corpse in a self-storage unit.
The neighbors complained to Jeffrey Dahmer about the smell but he made excuses.
Without enough bags of lye other killers’ victims have been found behind walls.
Apparently the bored, half asleep check-in employee laughed off any complaints, ate a few Cheetos and went back to his online porn sites.
Ha.
Hillary to service she paid for: “You know I don’t like loose ends. People I hire to take care of matters are instantly regretful they left any loose ends. Got me?”
“I think the Brown U student was targeted politically.”
I don’t see why people think this. He was walking down the aisle shooting indescriminately. Two people were killed, and 9 others ended up in the hospital.
My guess is that the Perp was a homo. At one time the MIT physics prof was a homo with the Perp (they both are from Portugal). The MIT gay eventualy married a woman and had children. The Killer Homo had been obsessed with his old gay flame from years ago, and decided to lash out. He didn't like the idea that the MIT homo wasn't active in the Gayboy club anymore. So he went whack.
My first thought is did he have dirt on the Clinton’s?
So, NO social media presence?
Senseless murders followed by suicide = psychiatric drugs. They turn normal people into monsters, much less unstableness ones.
“Legs” Diamond hired a fellow Army vet to teach him sniper skills and firing a weapon left handed and right handed with equal accuracy. Took him months.
True story fictionalized in 1960 movie The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Ray Danton). Shot six separate times and always survived.
Only one brief scene of him with leather jacket and two handguns shows the two handed approach. Good movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8LLJD42Mc
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