"But the intense search this week for a suspect in a Brown University shooting that killed two students and wounded nine other people turned the tables on those expectations. Sweeping surveillance, now found in doorbells, cars and a vast network of vehicle-tracking cameras, did eventually help track down the whereabouts of Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old former Brown graduate student investigators believe was responsible for the Dec. 13 shooting and another killing two days later of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts."
"He evaded detection for days, using a hard-to-trace phone, avoiding facial recognition software by obscuring his face with a medical-type mask and switching the license plates on his rental cars. It wasn't until a local Reddit user "blew this case right open" with an old-fashioned tip first posted on the social media platform that police were able to connect a car to Neves Valente, said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha."
Two students were killed and nine others wounded in a Dec. 13 shooting near Brown University. Investigators believe Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate student, committed that shooting and also killed an MIT professor two days later in Brookline, Massachusetts. Advanced surveillance tools across doorbells, cars and vehicle-tracking cameras eventually helped trace his movements, but early searches were hindered by the suspect's use of a hard-to-trace phone, a medical-type mask to evade facial recognition and switched rental car license plates. A local Reddit tip connected a car to Neves Valente. The suspect was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire, days later, likely from suicide. The Reddit tipster received public praise.
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