It has been a wild few days regarding the Brown University shooting, which left two people dead and nine wounded on December 13. The suspect entered the school’s engineering building. How he was able to do that is still unknown. He walked off campus, where he knew cameras would be less likely to be present. Brown posts the location of their security cameras. We don’t know his name, but after five days of shambolic pressers from Rhode Island and university officials, we had a lead, and it was officially a manhunt. A person of interest was identified and tracked down to Salem, New Hampshire, where police promptly swarmed him.
🚨 WOW! RIFLES DRAWN outside an FBI-surrounded storage facility in New Hampshire after the Brown University mass shooter suspect's alleged car was found
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2025
Haul this monster back for SWIFT justice!pic.twitter.com/7NCSWGvDP6
🚨 BREAKING: Agents have STORMED the storage facility in New Hampshire where the suspected Brown U shooter has a unit under his name - but have not yet entered his unit.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2025
Per @Brooketaylortv, there is surveillance footage showing him entering, but it's unclear if he left the… pic.twitter.com/uEF9IzIhvq
NY Times: "An alert issued to the police in the Boston area directed officers to look for the car, and warned that anyone in it could be armed, dangerous and wanted in connection with the Brookline homicide. The alert did not mention the shooting at Brown." https://t.co/99idzIpp1q
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) December 18, 2025
MORE - Authorities release a photo of the suspected Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, who took his own life. pic.twitter.com/9vuLnObqbI
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 19, 2025
Fox News reported that this suspect is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His vehicle was discovered at a storage facility, where this person of interest reportedly owns a unit. Police surrounded and stormed the facility earlier this evening. It’s not your typical shooter: he planned for this attack, with multiple license plate changes, and knew how to avoid facial recognition technology and charted areas with minimal video surveillance.
Sources tell NewsCenter 5 the search for the suspect in the #BrownUniversity shooting and killing of an #MIT professor now includes #NewHampshire -- Updates: https://t.co/LGAoFSuQk0 pic.twitter.com/EfsVWh3OsQ
— WCVB-TV Boston (@WCVB) December 18, 2025
#BREAKING: Direct high level source on the ground says they are about to enter the storage facility and the reason you saw all the officers in the parking lot just standing there was because they were watching surveillance footage to see whether the suspected was in the storage…
— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) December 19, 2025
Direct high level source on the ground tells me they have NOT made contact with the suspected shooter https://t.co/T5cnOTZkMD
— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) December 19, 2025
#BREAKING: Sources confirm with me that officers are in Salem, New Hampshire where the suspected shooter’s abandoned car was found near a storage facility
— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) December 19, 2025
Sources also tell me he is in 40s.
— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) December 18, 2025
Methuen, MA is just south of the storage facility being searched pic.twitter.com/CHjpJDvRhA
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) December 19, 2025
CNN: "The suspect has employed a series of countermeasures to avoid being tracked beyond swapping license plates in different cities, as he has seemingly planned ahead to avoid surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology by making himself unidentifiable, one official…
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) December 19, 2025
CNN: same car was used in Brown University shooting and MIT professor shooting, but the license plate had been switched https://t.co/nqagm4aqkC pic.twitter.com/uLLfeUszwU
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) December 19, 2025
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha added that the second person of interest, who was “in proximity” of the Brown shooting suspect, came forward to police with key information, including the description of the suspect and the car. He added that the suspect was found with two firearms, including some of the items seen being worn in the video footage. The affidavit will be posted on the state’s website, but the arrest warrant was issued today. The individual is not an American citizen but a legal permanent resident named Claudio Neves Valente,48, a Portuguese national. As far as we know, he acted alone. Antisemitism is not considered a motivation at this time. We still don't know what he said before opening fire at Brown.
🚨🚨🚨 Waiting on the spelling of the Brown University campus shooter's name but Providence PD Chief says he was 48-years-old, a "Portuguese national" and his last known address was in Miami, Florida @TedDanielnews says he's learned the suspect was not a US citizen but a "legal…
— CB Cotton (@CB_Cotton) December 19, 2025
Breaking: A law enforcement source tells me the Brown University shooting suspect is not a U.S. citizen but a “legal permeant resident”
— Ted Daniel (@TedDanielnews) December 19, 2025
THEY GOT HIM
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 19, 2025
Providence Chief of Police, Oscar Perez, announces the Brown University shooter was Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who took his own life tonight. pic.twitter.com/2ZrH4YQxUF
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— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) December 19, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Local Providence Journalist reports that the Brown University Shooter suspect GOT INTO A FIGHT with the “SECOND PERSON” that officials were looking 🚨
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) December 19, 2025
Turns out, the “SECOND PERSON” was a HOMELESS FORMER BROWN STUDENT— who was LIVING on CAMPUS 🚨
H/T:… pic.twitter.com/bY7HrW7C3I
That key eyewitness development is excellent, though five days later, police hadn't interviewed any of the student witnesses.
Throughout the past few days, the university couldn’t answer basic questions about the shooting and bungled an answer about the school’s alert system. President Christian Paxson said “I don’t know” to multiple questions during the first press conference. Mayor Brett Smiley whined about being tired, and everyone botched the question about cameras.
Someone finally blew his stack at yesterday's pressers, wondering if cameras were removed to prevent them from being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their ongoing mass deportation operations. A student assistant, who was scrubbed from the university's website, was roped into this mess. He was never a suspect, but school and law enforcement officials gave heinous answers to that effect, which only poured gasoline on the pyre instead of resolving the matter.
Just say this student assistant wasn’t a suspect, Providence Police. Why does Brown need to toss out a rather shoddy statement about doxxing? Every aspect of this case has been mismanaged.
It was revealed earlier today that the Brown University shooting and the killing of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15 might be linked. Police investigators in both cases compared notes and felt there was enough to suggest a connection.
Valente was an alumnus of Brown.
Brown shooting suspect attended Brown from 2000 to 2001, enrolled only in physics classes, university believes he had classes in building where shooting took place
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) December 19, 2025
(from press conference)
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