Overview
- Officials said the 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown student died of a self-inflicted gunshot in a Salem, New Hampshire, storage unit, where a satchel and two firearms were recovered.
- Authorities believe he is responsible for the Brown University classroom attack that killed two students and wounded nine, as well as the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro.
- A Rhode Island court issued a state arrest warrant charging Valente with two counts of murder and 23 felony counts tied to the Providence attack.
- Evidence in his car matched items from the Brown scene, and police said he appeared to have acted alone; motive remains unknown.
- Investigators traced him through a rented Nissan, license-plate changes, neighborhood camera footage and a witness’s license-plate note, and cited a prior academic overlap between Valente and Loureiro in Lisbon as context under review.