Overview
- The U.S. Department of Education opened a program review of Brown University for potential Clery Act violations, ordering crime logs, security reports and emergency notification records by Jan. 30.
- Brown placed public safety chief Rodney Chatman on leave and named former Providence police chief Hugh T. Clements interim leader while commissioning an external review and moving to add more security cameras.
- A longtime custodian, Derek Lisi, said he saw a man later identified as the suspect more than a dozen times in the Barus & Holley building and reported him to a third‑party security guard multiple times without action.
- Lisi and other witnesses described the man peering into classrooms and lingering near room 166, and Lisi said he recognized the suspect from police images released during the manhunt.
- Authorities identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the shooter in the Dec. 13 attack that killed two students and in the Dec. 15 killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro; he was later found dead by suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit, and investigators say a motive remains unknown.