Providence police work at the scene of a shooting in the area of Eddy Street and Sayles Street on December 15, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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The suspect in last Saturday’s Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine others was found dead Thursday, authorities said in Providence, Rhode Island.
At the same time, federal authorities in Boston issued a press release announcing the death of the “Brown University and MIT professor shooter,” and said in a news statement that there was “no longer a threat to the public.”
Nuno Gómez Loureiro, 47, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Brookline, Massachusetts, was shot and killed in his home earlier this week.
The suspect in the Brown shooting has been identified as Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was a physics graduate student at Brown University in the early 2000s.
Authorities announced his identity and his alleged role in the Brown shooting hours after his body was found with a gun at the scene in Salem, New Hampshire.
Valente was a doctoral student in physics at Brown University.
He is thought to have attended the same university as Loureiro in Lisbon, Portugal.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Ted Docks said at a news conference in Providence that Valente is “the person we believe is responsible for the Brown shooting.”
“Many questions have to be answered,” Docks said.
Authorities say they believe Valente acted alone.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said, “We can safely assume that this man spent a lot of time in that building as a student” where Saturday’s shooting occurred.
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