Suspected Brown University Shooter Also Allegedly Killed MIT Professor
The man who was sought in connection with a mass shooting at Brown University is also suspected to have killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, a federal prosecutor said. Authorities found Claudio…
The man who was sought in connection with a mass shooting at Brown University is also suspected to have killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, a federal prosecutor said.
Authorities found Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, in a Salem, N.H., storage unit Thursday, where he is believed to have committed suicide, Fox News reported. United States Attorney Leah Foley of the District of Massachusetts said during a Thursday night press conference that in addition to being the main suspect in the shooting at the Ivy League school that left two students dead, Neves-Valente was also believed responsible for the Monday murder of Nuno Loureiro.
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“This evening at approximately 9 p.m., federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire, in search of Claudio Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national we believed shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts,” Foley told reporters. “Federal agents found Neves-Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
The shooting at the college left Ella Brown, a 19-year-old from Alabama who was vice-president of the College Republicans at Brown University, and aspiring doctor Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov dead. A manhunt for the shooter responsible for the double homicide dragged on for multiple days after the FBI initially announced a person of interest was in custody before later releasing him.