Overview
- Police identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the person behind the Brown campus shooting that killed two and injured nine and the killing of MIT physicist Nuno F. G. Loureiro.
- He was found Thursday in a Salem, New Hampshire storage facility with what officials described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Investigators are examining his academic history for a possible motive, including a reported decades-old grudge tied to perceived career failure.
- Authorities say Valente and Loureiro overlapped at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon in the late 1990s.
- Records show Valente entered Brown’s physics doctoral program in 2000, attended about a year before withdrawing in 2003, moved to the U.S. on an F-1 visa, and became a lawful permanent resident in 2017.