19.12.2025 11:14
In the shootings that took place in the United States, MIT professor Nuno Loureiro lost his life, while 2 people were killed and 9 others were injured at Brown University. The suspect in the attacks, Claudio Neves Valente, was found dead in New Hampshire.
A professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nuno Loureiro, who was shot and killed at his home in the United States, has been reported as the suspect in a shooting at Brown University where 2 people died and 9 were injured. A press conference was held by police officials regarding the shooting that took place at Brown University on December 13.
FOUND DEAD IN A STORAGE UNIT HE RENTED
Authorities stated that the suspect in the university shooting, 48-year-old Portuguese citizen Claudio Neves Valente, was found dead in a storage unit he rented in New Hampshire. Officials shared that Valente had committed suicide and noted that the suspect had pursued graduate studies in physics at Brown University between 2000 and 2001. They also reported that Valente was the suspect in the shooting that resulted in the death of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro on December 15, and that Valente and Loureiro were part of the same academic program at a university in Portugal in 1995. The FBI had previously stated that there was no known connection between the two incidents.
WHAT HAPPENED?
On December 13, an "active shooter" alert was issued on the Brown University campus in the evening local time due to an armed assailant. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced that 2 people had died and 9 others were injured in the attack. MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the night of December 15.