[ April 21, 2026 ]
Curious and curiouser.
Authorities discover that the same man opened fire at Brown university students and also killed the nuclear scientist at MIT — and the Homeland Security secretary says the Portuguese native “never should have been allowed in.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Valente entered US through the lottery immigrant visa program DV1 in 2017. He was later granted a green card. “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she wrote.
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🚨 BREAKING: The FBI announced they believe suspected Brown University shooter Claudio Neves Valente went to school in Lisbon, Portugal with the MIT professor who was murdered on Monday
In other words, if Providence PD weren’t incompetent, that MIT professor would be alive today pic.twitter.com/eMqBPjC9Fg
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 19, 2025
Brown, MIT shooting suspect ID’d as Claudio Neves Valente — after shooting himself in storage facility
By Zoe Hussain and Joe Marino, The NY Post, Dec. 18, 2025
Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school and the murder of an MIT professor, while also confirming he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Valente, a Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night following a nearly weeklong manhunt spurred by the shooting Saturday that killed two Brown students, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez announced at a press conference.
ADVERTISEMENTThe 48-year-old former graduate student was discovered dead with a satchel and two firearms inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility, where authorities carried out a search warrant around 9 p.m.
FBI Special Agent Ted Docks also revealed that Valente studied in Lisbon with murdered MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro, 47. The professor was killed on Monday in his $1.4 million townhouse in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts, and cops there announced late Thursday he was shot by Valente.
The two studied together in the same academic program between 1995 and 2000, Leah Foley, the US attorney in Massachusetts, revealed in a second press conference late Thursday.
Valente was then enrolled at Brown University between 2000 and 2001 in a graduate physics program. He primarily took classes at the university’s Barus & Holley building — where he opened fire on students inside a classroom on Saturday, according to Brown University President Christina Paxson.
“It is safe to assume that this man, when he was a student, spent a lot of time in that building,” Paxson told reporters.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Valente entered US through the lottery immigrant visa program DV1 in 2017. He was later granted a green card.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she wrote.
ADVERTISEMENT“In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people,” she continued.
She wrote Trump will be suspending the lottery program that allowed Valente to enter the US.
“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,” she concluded.
On Saturday, the suspect entered the elite Providence university and opened fire in the Barus & Holley building, killing students Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old Uzbek American freshman.
Nine others were wounded in the barrage of bullets, with six remaining in the hospital on Wednesday.
Authorities were finally able to crack the case open after a man posted on Reddit that cops should investigate a possible rented gray Nissan with Florida plates that he spotted in Providence while having an odd interaction with a man.
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