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No current employees recall shooter when he was a student, says Brown president — 9:19 a.m.
By Steph Machado, Globe Staff
The guns found with the man who was charged in the Brown University mass shooting and murder of an MIT professor were taken to the Connecticut State Police lab overnight for analysis, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
ATF spokesperson Austin Wozniak said the guns were found on the scene in Salem, New Hampshire, where Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead on Thursday in a storage facility. Agents collected the weapons and other evidence and brought them to Connecticut.
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No current employees recall shooter when he was a student, says Brown president — 8:42 a.m.
By Alexa Gagosz, Globe Staff
No current Brown University employees could recall Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the shooter who was enrolled at Brown as a graduate student from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001, according to an email sent to students and staff by president Christina H. Paxson on Friday.
During his time at Brown, he was pursuing a PhD in physics and only enrolled in physics classes, Paxson said.
At a press conference on Thursday, Paxson said Neves Valente would have taken courses and spent time in the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, where Saturday’s shooting took place.
Yet “detailed records indicating where classes were held don’t extend back to 2001,” Paxson wrote in the email.
“While Brown remains committed to searching all institutional systems to identify any pertinent information to assist law enforcement, we have thus far found no indication of any concerns pertaining to conduct or any public safety interactions during the short time Neves Valente was enrolled as a graduate student at Brown,” Paxson wrote.
At the time of the shooting, Neves Valente had no active affiliation with Brown and had not been affiliated with Brown since 2003, when he formally withdrew effective July 31, 2003. He was not a current student, was not an employee, and did not receive a degree from the university at any time, Paxson said.
Surveillance footage shows Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente renting a car in Boston.State of Rhode Island
School in Portugal confirms link between Neves Valente and Loureiro — 8:21 a.m.
By Mariana Simões, Globe Staff
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and his suspected killer attended The Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon at the same time in the late 1990s, the school confirmed in an email.
Loureiro received an undergraduate degree in physics from the school.
“We can only confirm that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was a student at Tecnico in the Engineering Physics course between 1995 and 2000. Nuno Loureiro took the course during the same period,” a spokesperson for the school said in an email.“
His friends and colleagues at IPFN and at Tecnico, some of whom continued to collaborate with Nuno until this day, are deeply dismayed by losing him prematurely,” they added. “We remember him as a brilliant colleague, who was a joy to collaborate with. Out of respect for Nuno Loureiro’s family members the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear will not comment on ongoing police investigations and other matters of justice.”
Mariana Simões can be reached at mariana.simoes@globe.com. Follow her on X @MariRebuaSimoes. Steph Machado can be reached at steph.machado@globe.com. Follow her @StephMachado. Alexa Gagosz can be reached at alexa.gagosz@globe.com. Follow her @alexagagosz and on Instagram @AlexaGagosz.
