"They identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, as the man they say barged into an engineering classroom at Brown last Saturday and opened fire on students attending a review session. Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "We are 100 percent confident that this is our target and that this case is closed from a perspective of pursuing people involved," Rhode Island attorney general Peter Nerhona said."
"Officials said they believed Valente was also connected to the murder of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro earlier in the week. The same rental car had been spotted near Brown and outside Loureiro's home, authorities said. Loureiro was shot at his home Monday night and died at the hospital the next day. His home in Brookline, Mass., is about 50 miles from Brown. Authorities said that in the 1990s, Valente had attended the same university in Lisbon as Loureiro."
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was identified as the man who entered an engineering classroom at Brown and opened fire, killing two students and injuring nine. He was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a Salem, N.H., storage unit. Authorities said they are fully confident the case is closed regarding pursuing others. Officials believe Valente was connected to the earlier murder of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro after the same rental car was spotted near both locations. Loureiro was shot at his Brookline home and later died at the hospital. Valente entered the U.S. on a student visa in 2000 and had previously attended Brown.
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