"According to police, John had confronted 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente over his behavior before Saturday's attack. As police posted images of a person of interest now identified as Neves Valente John began posting on the social media forum Reddit that he recognized the person and saud police should look into possibly a rental gray Nissan. Reddit users urged him to tell the FBI, and John said he did."
"Ever since a shooter unloaded more than 40 rounds inside a Brown engineering building, anxiety and frustration has plagued the Providence, Rhode Island, community as police appeared no closer to identifying the person. The police affidavit said they learned about the tip on Dec. 16, three days after the shooting and a day after the tip line was created. Until that point, the police affidavit says officials had not connected a vehicle to the possible shooter."
A shooter fired more than 40 rounds inside a Brown University engineering building, killing two students. Two days later a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was shot in his Brookline home. A tipster known only as John said he had a strange encounter with a man outside Brown and later recognized a person of interest in police images. John posted on Reddit suggesting investigators check a rental gray Nissan and reported the information to the FBI. Police received the tip on Dec. 16 and connected a vehicle to the possible shooter, identifying 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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