Who Is the Brown Mass Shooter? A Former Student

Who Is the Brown Mass Shooter? A Former Student

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente has been identified as the man who conducted the mass shooting at Brown University last Saturday.

 

Two students died, and nine others were injured during the shooting, which took place at Barus & Holley Hall on the Brown campus located on Hope Street.

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According to law enforcement, he is also believed to be involved in the death of an MIT professor.

 

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 48-year-old physicist and fusion scientist at MIT. He was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk district attorney's office said.

 

Neves Valente was born in Torres Novas, Santarem, Portugal, and was a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States. Neves Valente arrived in the United States in August 2000 as an F-1 student at Brown University. 

 

Neves Valente attended Brown in 2000 and 2001 as a graduate student in physics.

 

He was a resident of Miami, Florida. 

 

Neves Valente died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage container facility in Salem, NH, after being on the run for six days. GoLocal was first to report his death.