Likely Brown University killer found dead in New Hampshire

Suspect in Brown University mass shooting found dead in New Hampshire

From a press release posted by SteveAhlquist.news

The above video still of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was taken from Alamo Rent a Car on November 17, 2025. This shows Valente picking up the car.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, the Providence Police Department, the Rhode Island State Police, the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island are today announcing the death of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the individual responsible for the murders of two students during a mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

You can watch the news conference video here.

“Our singular goal was to obtain justice for the victims of this senseless act, and tonight our community can begin to heal as we close the book on this unimaginable tragedy,” said Attorney General Neronha. 

“While we’ll never be able to prosecute this individual, I hope this result begins to provide some small measure of closure for the victims and their families. I want to extend enormous gratitude to all of our law enforcement partners for their outstanding work in this case. Since Saturday, these men and women have worked around the clock to achieve justice for the victims and restore a sense of peace to Rhode Islanders.”

On December 18, 2025, a Rhode Island state court, based on an affidavit from a Providence Police Detective, issued a state arrest warrant for Neves Valente, charging him with two counts of murder and 23 felony counts of assault and felony firearms offenses.

Earlier this evening, law enforcement located Neves Valente at a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire. After obtaining a federal search warrant for the unit, authorities entered and found Neves Valente deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Neves Valente (age 48) was born in Torres Novas, Santarem, Portugal, and was a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States. Neves Valente arrived in the United States in August 2000 as an F-1 student at Brown University and subsequently obtained U.S. lawful permanent residency in April 2017. While at Brown University, he enrolled in a doctoral program but later withdrew from the university.

Full details of the investigation and subsequent identification of Neves Valente can be found in this affidavit.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Valente is also believed by authorities to have killed MIT nuclear scientist Nuno F.G. Loureiro on Monday at his home in Brookline, MA. 

Predictably, Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has suspended the program that allowed Valente to be granted a green card.