If this is the guy – I’m still not 100% sure of this, and I’m definitely not 100% sure he was a lone wolf – he is dead; apparently by suicide.
According to Melissa Koenig and Laura Parnaby’s article in London’s Daily Mail:
The gunman who killed two students at Brown University was found dead in a storage unit as it was revealed his main target was an MIT professor he shot dead in Boston.
The suspect – 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente – was revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island more than 20 years ago.
After being on the lam for days, his eventual demise stemmed from a Reddit post that flagged his suspicious activity outside the Providence campus.
Neves Valente had attended Brown to pursue a masters of science in physics from 2000 to 2001, before he took a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew.
It remains unclear why Neves Valente opened fire at the Rhode Island school, killing Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, of Virginia, and 19-year-old Ella Cook, of Alabama.
But University President Christina Paxson said it was likely he took classes inside that building when he attended the school.
The development about the shooter’s fixation on MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro raised new questions about his motive for the slaying and the timeline of the shootings.
My congratulations to the Brown University campus police and Providence, Rhode Island police/governance for….just about nothing. Because without the tip from a party who – from other sources, we now know was “homeless” and living in the basement of the building (great security, guys) – they’d have nothing.
And do we know for sure this informer was just a good citizen? Or maybe he was an accomplice, who saw that $50,000 reward and decided to go in a different direction?
I’m not accusing here. I’m saying I don’t know.
I’ll wait for more details. I suggest you do too.
