FBI investigators suspect the shooter also travelled to Massachusetts to fatally shoot Portugal-born Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent MIT physicist|@FBIBoston|X
The suspected shooter in the deadly Brown University attack was found dead in a storage unit in New Hampshire on Thursday night, ending a six-day manhunt. FBI Boston officials identified the suspect as 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.
Investigators believe Valente opened fire in a classroom in Brown last Saturday, killing two students and injuring nine others. Authorities also suspect he traveled to Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday, where he fatally shot Portugal-born MIT physicist Nuno F. G. Loureiro.
In response to the tragedy, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a pause on the diversity lottery immigrant visa program, noting that Valente had entered the US through that system in 2017 and obtained a green card.
Valente was a former Brown graduate student who had withdrawn from a physics program in 2001. Authorities established a connection between the suspect and Professor Loureiro through an academic program they both attended in Portugal from 1995 to 2000.