Overview
- Officials identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspect in the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro at his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on December 15.
- MIT said Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound late Thursday at a storage facility in New Hampshire after a dayslong search.
- Investigators link Valente to the Brown University attack two days earlier that left two students dead and nine wounded.
- The U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts said Valente and Loureiro attended the same program at Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico and did know each other.
- MIT and Portuguese colleagues are mourning Loureiro, a leading plasma physicist and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center known for advances in fusion and astrophysical plasma research.