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Brown Student Recounts 7-Hour Lockdown After Campus Shooting as Suspect Is Found Dead

Investigators say former student Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit after the attack.

Overview

  • A Brown freshman said he hid with about 25 students in a library basement for roughly seven hours before police escorted them out.
  • Investigators named former Brown student Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, as the attacker and later found him dead in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit.
  • The Dec. 13 shooting inside Brown’s Barus & Holley building killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine others.
  • Students warned one another on the Sidechat app and barricaded doors as they initiated a library lockdown before official alerts arrived.
  • Brown says it has increased security and launched a campuswide review, as alumni and local businesses supported students and witnesses urged stricter gun laws.