{"id":2523021,"date":"2025-12-19T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brown-mit-shooting-suspect-studied-with-murdered-professor-in-portugal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:05:00","slug":"brown-mit-shooting-suspect-studied-with-murdered-professor-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brown-mit-shooting-suspect-studied-with-murdered-professor-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown-MIT shooting suspect studied with murdered professor in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrown-mit-shooting-suspect-studied-with-murdered-professor-in-portugal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2523021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The suspect in the Brown University shooting, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who also murdered Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno Loureiro, previously studied alongside the professor at a university in Portugal. Neves Valente, a Portuguese national and former Brown University student, is accused of killing two students and injuring nine others in the Brown shooting.U.S. attorney Leah Foley confirmed that Neves Valente and Loureiro knew each other from an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >academic program thay attended<\/a> between 1995 and 2000. Neves Valente enrolled in BrownS Ph.D. physics program but withdrew after taking a leave of absence. Authorities say Neves Valente deliberately targeted Loureiro, traveling from Rhode Island to Massachusetts using a rental car with altered license plates. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-blasted-for-attack-on-first-amendment-by-seeking-readers-of-story-usa-today-fight-back\/\" title=\"FBI Blasted For Attack On First Amendment By Seeking Readers Of Story, USA Today Fight Back\">suspect died<\/a> by suicide in a New Hampshire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-rolls-out-vaccines-in-bid-to-leave-pandemic-behind\/\" title=\"Europe rolls out vaccines in bid to leave pandemic behind\">storage unit<\/a> during a police standoff.Officials believe he acted alone, and there is no current threat to public safety. Neves Valente entered the U.S. on a student visa in 2000 and became a permanent resident in 2017.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Brown-MIT shooting suspect studied with murdered professor in Portugal, authorities say<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2449278\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The deceased gunman who authorities <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/shootings\/\">say murdered<\/a> Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro previously knew and studied with the victim at a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/portugal\/\">Portuguese<\/a> university.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was a former Brown University student and Portuguese national. Neves Valente is the suspect in both Loureiro&rsquo;s murder and the Brown University mass shooting from Saturday, in which he allegedly killed two students and injured nine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3926743\/watch-live-brown-university-shooting-suspect-update\/\">WATCH LIVE: Officials hold briefing after Brown University shooting suspect found dead<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3927074\/brown-university-shooting-suspect-dead-new-hampshire\/\">Brown University shooting suspect found dead in New Hampshire storage unit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3926946\/singer-jelly-roll-pardoned-tennessee-governor\/\">Singer Jelly Roll pardoned by Tennessee governor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>U.S. Attorney for the District of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/massachusetts\/\">Massachusetts<\/a> Leah Foley confirmed Neves Valente as the suspect in Loureiro&rsquo;s murder during a press conference Thursday evening. Foley said the gunman and the victim knew each other, but she did not know whether the two had recently been in contact.<\/p>\n<p>Neves Valente &ldquo;attended the same academic program as the MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro, in Portugal, between 1995 and 2000,&rdquo; Foley said.<\/p>\n<p>Loureiro was a professor of physics and of nuclear science and engineering at MIT and was also originally from Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Neves Valente attended Brown University from fall 2000 to spring 2001, Brown University President Christina Paxson said. During this time, Neves Valente enrolled in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/higher-education\/\">Brown&rsquo;s Ph.D. physics program<\/a> before taking a leave of absence and ultimately withdrawing from the program. Neves Valente was only enrolled in physics classes at the university.<\/p>\n<p>Foley said &ldquo;there was no doubt&rdquo; that Loureiro was Neves Valente&rsquo;s intended target.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe Neves Valente traveled from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, to Loureiro&rsquo;s home in Brookline, Massachusetts, in a rental car, changing license plates during the drive.<\/p>\n<p>Neves Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday evening while surrounded by law enforcement officers, Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the District of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/massachusetts\/\">Massachusetts<\/a> confirmed on X that there is no longer a threat to the public. Foley confirmed that, at this point in the ongoing investigation, authorities believe Neves Vilente acted alone.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have no information that he was acting in concert with anyone else right now,&rdquo; Foley said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3927074\/brown-university-shooting-suspect-dead-new-hampshire\/\">BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING SUSPECT FOUND DEAD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE STORAGE UNIT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neves Vilente entered the United States in August 2000 on an F-1 student visa and obtained U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-congress-to-pass-bill-allowing-11-million-immigrants-to-gain-citizenship\/\" title=\"Biden Pushes Congress to Pass Bill Allowing 11 Million Immigrants to Gain Citizenship\">legal permanent residency<\/a> in 2017, according to authorities. His last known address was in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Foley explained that Neves Valente rented a hotel room in Boston from Nov. 26-30 before driving to the vicinity of Brown University on Dec. 1 in a rental car.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown-MIT shooting suspect studied with victim in Portugal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2523022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25353129109652.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[69068,3976,69069,19829,67781],"class_list":["post-2523021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-brown-mit","tag-investigation","tag-murdered-professor","tag-portugal","tag-shooting-suspect"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25353129109652.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523025,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523021\/revisions\/2523025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}