Overview
- Police identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown physics student, who was found dead by suicide in a Salem, Massachusetts storage unit.
- Authorities said the same individual is linked to the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, with federal officials confirming the connection between the two cases.
- Investigators recovered two firearms and items matching surveillance images, and they said Valente is believed to have acted alone.
- A rental car lead and a witness-provided license plate number helped officers trace the suspect’s movements and locate the vehicle and storage site.
- Two Brown students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, were killed and nine others wounded, as the FBI and local agencies continue forensic work and officials oversee support for the campus community.