Overview
- Authorities identified the suspect as Claudio Neves‑Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and former Brown student found dead of an apparent self‑inflicted gunshot in a Salem, N.H., storage facility.
- Rhode Island’s attorney general said two firearms, a satchel and other items recovered with Neves‑Valente match evidence from the Providence crime scene, and police said he is believed to have acted alone.
- The Brown attack on Dec. 13 inside the Barus & Holley building killed students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and injured nine others during finals.
- MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro, 47, a plasma physicist and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was fatally shot at his Brookline home two days after the Brown shooting.
- The manhunt gives way to forensic and interagency follow‑up as investigators work to confirm full linkage and determine motive after days of public appeals, released surveillance footage and an FBI reward.