U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in the annual Christmas Tree Ship arrival ceremony aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw at Navy Pier on Dec. 6, 2025 in Chicago, Ill. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who was found dead on Thursday from "a self-inflicted gunshot wound," according to officials, was the suspect in both the Brown University shooting and in the separate murder of an M.I.T. professor.
Valente was a Brown University student more than two decades ago, according to school President Christina Paxson.
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"Neves Valente was enrolled at Brown as a graduate student from Fall 2000 to Spring 2001, but he has no active affiliation with Brown and has not been affiliated with Brown since 2003. He was not a current student, was not an employee and did not receive a degree from the University, attending for only three semesters as a graduate student until taking a leave in 2001 and formally withdrawing effective July 31, 2003," she noted.
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"Neves Valente was admitted to Brown's Graduate School to study in the Sc.M-PhD program in physics," Paxson indicated.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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