It was Thursday morning when investigators definitively decided the identical individual opened hearth on a examine group at Brown College and, two days later, murdered an MIT professor — elevating fears amongst regulation enforcement officers that the killer might have had different supposed targets, in response to the highest federal regulation enforcement official in Boston.
“We had no thought if he had successful record and these had been simply the primary two stops on his tour,” Leah Foley, the USA Lawyer for the District of Massachusetts, instructed ABC Information on Friday.
U.S. Lawyer for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley speaks with ABC Information, Dec. 19, 2025.
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Foley stated that the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was discovered useless within the New Hampshire storage unit with two 9mm Glock firearms outfitted with inexperienced laser sights, 5 magazines with practically 200 rounds of ammunition and practically $900 in money. In his automotive, investigators stated they discovered extra ammunition and physique armor.
“This was extremely premeditated and he was undoubtedly outfitted for the mission that he sought out to do,” Foley stated.
Claudio Neves Valente, suspect within the Brown College taking pictures in Windfall, on this undated handout picture launched, December 18, 2025.
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Neves Valente, 48, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police stated.
On Friday, an post-mortem was underway to find out how lengthy the suspect had been useless by the point his physique was discovered. Ballistics checks and DNA checks had been underway.
Investigators had been additionally looking by the contents of three USB thumb drives discovered within the suspect’s automotive to see in the event that they contained clues a couple of motive. It’s unclear right now if the suspect had another potential targets, in response to individuals conversant in the investigation.
A gray Nissan automotive is parked at a storage facility, the place the Brown College shooter, recognized by authorities as Claudio Neves Valente, took his personal life, in Salem, New Hampshire, on this handout picture launched December 19, 2025.
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Foley stated investigators imagine Brown College and the MIT professor — Nuno F.G. Loureiro — had been intentional targets, however they have no idea why.
“I do not know that even when he had defined why, that that may be a solution that’s passable to anybody,” Foley stated. “He was evil.”
The likelihood that the killer might have struck once more infused the manhunt with new urgency. Federal brokers fanned out throughout 4 New England states and posted up at airports in Boston and Hartford.
Windfall Police Officers be a part of state and federal regulation enforcement brokers looking for the Brown College shooter, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025.
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“We had no thought if he was going to behave once more in New England or attempt to depart New England,” Foley stated.
Neves Valente had already switched license plates as soon as, in response to authorities. Within the automotive, investigators stated they discovered one other expired plate.
The suspect was a former Brown graduate scholar who attended the varsity some 25 years in the past, faculty officers stated. He had enrolled as a Ph.D scholar in Brown’s physics program in 2000 and attended for lower than a yr, earlier than happening a depart of absence after which withdrawing.
Neves Valente and Loureiro had been each Portuguese nationals and had attended the identical physics engineering program at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, the varsity confirmed to ABC Information.
