Officials said they believe the Brown University shooting suspect previously attended the same university in Lisbon, Portugal, as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was gunned down at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday. Both were natives of Portugal.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 19, 2025
The suspect… pic.twitter.com/qIi6OJtYmg
Claudio Valente, the suspect in Brown University shooting at a car rental in Boston, Massachusetts. Providence Police Department
BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente was enrolled at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He was admitted to Brown's graduate school to study in the Masters of Science PhD program in physics."
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 19, 2025
"During his time with Brown, Neves-Valente was… pic.twitter.com/1BIzGqQ8vF
UPDATE: Suspect in Brown University shooting ID’d as Claudio Neves-Valente, 48, a Miami resident originally from Portugal. He was found dead tonight pic.twitter.com/dUgyhJ8Si1
— BNO News (@BNONews) December 19, 2025
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: BROWN SHOOTING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED – AUTHORITIES REVEAL 25-YEAR-OLD CONNECTION TO MIT PROFESSOR KILLED
Authorities announced late Thursday that Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, the person of interest in the Brown University mass shooting, was found dead with… https://t.co/2TwjWW5idQ pic.twitter.com/CYnhy2y6NE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 19, 2025
NOW – FBI believes the MIT Nuclear Scientist murdered in Boston and the Brown University shooter went to school together in Lisbon, Portugal. pic.twitter.com/twg0ssUQ7n
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 19, 2025
THE 25-YEAR-OLD LINK:
According to records from Instituto Superior Técnico (I.S.T.), Portugal’s preeminent engineering school, a person named Claudio Neves-Valente was terminated from a monitor position in February 2000 – the same year Professor Nuno Loureiro graduated from I.S.T.
Both men were Portuguese nationals.
Both attended the same elite university.
One was reportedly fired.
One went on to become a world-renowned fusion researcher.
THE EVIDENCE:
Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha:
“He was found dead, with a satchel, with two firearms and evidence in the car that matches exactly what we see at the scene here in Providence.”
A car believed to have been rented by Neves-Valente matches the vehicle identified in the MIT case.
Suspect was student of Brown in early 2000’s, university president says
From CNN’s Taylor Romine
Suspect Claudio Valente was a former student who was enrolled at Brown University in the Master of Science PHD program studying physics, the university’s president Christina Hull Paxson said.
He was enrolled from September 2000 to April 2001, when he took a leave of absence before formally withdrawing in July 2003, she said.
Valente was only enrolled in physics classes during his time at the university, and the majority of those classes would’ve been held in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooting occurred, Paxson said.
He did not have an active affiliation with the university, she added.
Brown University shooting suspect also killed MIT professor, Massachusetts prosecutor says
From CNN’s Laura Sharman
An undated photo of MIT Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), Nuno Loureiro. Jake Belcher/Reuters
Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Valente is accused of killing an MIT professor in Massachusetts days after the shooting at the Rhode Island university.
“On December 15, he murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at Loureiro’s home in Brookline, Massachussets,” US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Leah Foley, said at a news conference in Boston on Thursday evening.
Foley added that Valente previously attended the same academic program as the MIT professor in Portugal, between 1995 and 2000.