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FBI Says Brown Shooter Acted Alone as Survivors Sue University Over Security Lapses

The findings focus attention on long-running gaps in access control at the building where the attack occurred.

Claudio Neves Valente, suspect in the Brown University shooting in Providence, in this undated handout image released on December 18, 2025. U.S. Attorney Massachusetts/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY/File Photo
FILE - Photos of Brown University shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, left, and Ella Cook, are seen amongst flowers at a makeshift memorial at the school's Van Wickle Gate, Dec. 17, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
FILE - The U.S. flag flies at half-staff on the Main Green in honor of the victims of the campus shooting at Brown University, Dec. 17, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
An investigator works the scene at a storage facility where the Brown University shooter, identified by authorities as Claudio Neves Valente, took his own life, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/CJ Gunther

Overview

  • Federal investigators released a behavioral assessment Wednesday finding the gunman acted alone with grievance-driven motives and no terrorism ties.
  • Investigators say he began planning in 2022, legally bought two 9 mm Glock pistols in Florida, and stored them in a Salem, New Hampshire, unit.
  • The same storage unit is where he was found dead by suicide days after the Dec. 13 attack that killed two Brown students and the later killing of an MIT professor.
  • Three injured students filed separate lawsuits Monday accusing Brown of ignoring warnings, including a custodian’s reports of the man casing the site, and of lax entry controls with limited interior camera coverage in Barus and Holley.
  • Brown says it is reviewing the complaints as a May 5 hearing approaches, and the suits seeking punitive damages could shape how courts view campus security duties on open urban campuses.