Overview
- Authorities identified Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and former Brown graduate student, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit.
- Evidence from his rental Nissan Sentra, license-plate reader hits and city surveillance placed the vehicle near Brown and in Brookline near Nuno Loureiro’s home.
- A witness known as “John” reported encounters with the suspect and flagged a gray Nissan with Florida plates, leading police to the car via the Flock Safety network.
- Officials said he likely acted alone; a satchel and two firearms were recovered, and evidence from his car matched items from the Providence crime scene.
- Investigators are examining a past overlap between Valente and Loureiro in a Lisbon academic program, while motive remains unknown, and the timeline of his movements continues to be reconstructed.