RI - Mass Shooting at Brown University - Providence 13 Dec 2025

[LAborn]

I'm cross eyed.
Watched both PCs and have caught up here with the comments.

If it weren't for John, this might not have been solved, at least not for some time.
The guy was prepared. Untrackable phone, with possibly European Sim cards, the different license plates including one that was no longer on the registry, hotel rooms here and there, etc.......but also various mistakes, should have abandoned the Brown plan as John was far too nosy.
Yes, some kind of 25 year grudge, probably a failure in his work and life unlike his brilliant successful co-student from Portugal. Was he married? If so maybe that too didn't work out.

I need to eat, dinner time has been non existent the last few days....just quick cold stuff from the fridge, and crackers.

My thoughts are with the victims, the families, and the students still in the hospital.

Agree 10000% on all points and conjectures. The taller, gray haired detective gave John his absolute due--he knows this all hinged on him, and also talked about how intelligent he is.

 

[JennieM]

Images of Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Neves Valente​

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Images of Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Neves Valente

See images of the suspect and other points of evidence in the Brown University shooting case.

eu.providencejournal.com

 

[Sillybilly]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

 

[Inthedetails]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

All I heard was "southern Florida."

jmo

 

[acutename]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

reported they searched a former address in FL.... do you mean in RI since early Dec?


The Providence Journal
Brown University shooting updates: Shooter identified, found dead in NH
The shooter was a 48-year-old Portuguese national, Claudio Neves Valente, a Brown student with a last known address of Miami, Florida.
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[JDG]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

Not yet. Might be more info in the next few days.

 

[JennieM]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

He was a resident of Florida, after obtaining permanent US residency in September 2017.

Brown University shooting suspect found dead, police say

Suspect ‍found dead in a Salem storage facility from self-inflicted wound.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[nao]

Moo...if you are homeless your observation and survival skills are on full alert most of time

 

[Sillybilly]

reported they searched a former address in FL.... do you mean in RI since early Dec?

Any residence of a somewhat permanent nature.

A house, an apartment, tree house ... whatever needs to be searched.

 

[JennieM]

Any residence of a somewhat permanent nature.

A house, an apartment, tree house ... whatever needs to be searched.

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[justtrish]

So I was curious when the professor for that review class started working at Brown and I found this saying it was 2000. It does give me a bit of pause due to how many times he was in the area and he was in the building BEFORE that class started at 2 (per John). If he was looking for a specific person and didn't see her enter, maybe he just decided it was the day and that was it. Maybe he had an encounter with her when he was studying at Brown in 2001?

https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/r/rfriedbe_cv.pdf?dt=311311052

 

[phi1ip]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

He was from Florida, but had been living in a hotel in the area for some time before the shootings.

 

[steeltowngirl]

It does appear that Valenti was dismissed from his position as a 'monitor' (I believe it's a RA-like position?) in 2000. I wonder if it had anything to do with Loureiro, or just garden variety jealously over his success.

According to records from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Portuguese engineering school, a person named Claudio Neves-Valente was terminated from a monitor position in February of 2000, the same year that Loureiro graduated from IST.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/person-of-interest-arrested-in-brown-shooting

 

[knla]

Anyone know if LE has found a residence for the perp?

Miami Herald says his last know residence was in Miami.

 

[Charlot123]

Seems reasonable to me that he might have wanted to maintain his anonymity.

There was something odd in him saying that he did not have a cellphone and could not take a photo. Something about having an iPad but not iPhone. Waiting for it to be returned. I thought that his financial situation was unusual, tbh.

 

[MassGuy]

Does anyone have the MIT affidavit yet?

 

[JDG]

Brown shooter revealed to be Portuguese national as he's found dead

The gunman who opened fire at Brown University and killed two students has been revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school more than 20 years ago.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Shooter was PhD student at Brown 20 years ago.

He might have been in competition with the MIT professor at some point. MOO

Jealous of successful professor?? MOO

 

[justtrish]

So I was curious when the professor for that review class started working at Brown and I found this saying it was 2000. It does give me a bit of pause due to how many times he was in the area and he was in the building BEFORE that class started at 2 (per John). If he was looking for a specific person and didn't see her enter, maybe he just decided it was the day and that was it. Maybe he had an encounter with her when he was studying at Brown in 2001?

https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/r/rfriedbe_cv.pdf?dt=311311052

So more on this thought. Earlier today I found this info about when the Principles of Economics class was held and where. On Monday evenings from 6-650 it's held in Barus and Holley.

The suspect had the encounter with the custodian in the bathroom of Barus and Holley between 3pm and sunset on Monday December 1. He was in that building on a Monday near to the time Professor Friedberg would have had a class.


18348 ECON 0110 09/03/25-12/20/25 Tu. 12:00-12:50 Smith-Buonanno Hall G01
18351 ECON 0110 09 09/03/25-12/20/25 M. 6:00-6:50 Barus & Holley 159
18357 ECON 0110 09/03/25-12/20/25 Tu. 7:00-7:50 Smith-Buonanno Hall 206

 

[getthefax]

Moo...if you are homeless your observation and survival skills are on full alert most of time

I haven't been able to watch the pressers, etc. Is it confirmed that John is, in fact, homeless? I mean, they could have named him as a "homeless" person to try to protect his identity a bit. I apologize if this has been confirmed elsewhere--I thought maybe the police made that part up since the perpetrator was still at large.

 

[JennieM]

12 min ago

US to pause diversity visa after Brown shooting suspect identified as green card holder from program​

From CNN's Xiaoqian Lin

The United States’ immigration agency has been directed to pause its diversity visa lottery program (DV1) after the suspect in the Brown University shooting was found to have entered the country via the scheme, said Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Claudio Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program in 2017 and was granted a green card, said Noem in an X post on Thursday night.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she added.
“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”
Valente, the deceased suspect, was a 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national.

Under the diversity visa program, up to 55,000 immigrants can enter the United States each year from countries with low rates of immigration to the US, according to the State Department’s website.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/brown-university-shooting-suspect-12-18-25?t=1766121176922