Neves Valente is captured on video surveillance at an Alamo Rent a Car facility, according to an affidavit. It does not say whether he rented a car on that date.
“In that critical video, Valente is seen wearing the exact same outfit as the Suspect on Dec. 13,” says an affidavit from Providence Police Detective Ryan Fedo, referring to a “two-tone lighter jacket with the exact same color combination and design as the Suspect.”
A custodian recalls seeing the suspect on the Brown campus at the Barus and Holley engineering building.
“On one occasion, after this individual noticed [the custodian] he entered the door on the Hope Street side, [and] went immediately into a ground level bathroom, across from room 166″ where the shooting later occurred, the filing says. “[Redacted] recalled specific dates of November 28, 2025 and Dec. 1, 2025, and said … the individual walked with a limp” and wore a face covering.
11:30 a.m.: A gray Nissan Sentra is rented from Alamo Rent a Car in downtown Boston.
6 p.m.: The rental car is spotted in the Brown University neighborhood in Providence where the campus shooting would later take place, according to a Flock camera, which records images and data from passing vehicles, including license plates.
9:15 a.m.: A Brown faculty member sees a gray sedan with a Florida plate driving unusually slowly in the neighborhood.
10:30 a.m.: Surveillance footage captures a man in a face mask and dark clothing circling an area near Brown University.
1:45 p.m.: A man police identified in an affidavit as “John” sees the suspect wearing clothes that seemed “inappropriate and inadequate for the weather” in a bathroom on the ground floor of the Barus and Holley building, according to an affidavit released by police. “John” follows the man, believes his movements are suspicious, and sees him act strangely around a gray sedan. Security footage shows “John” chasing after the suspect after running into him on a sidewalk.
2:15 p.m.: While walking in a neighborhood three blocks from the Barus and Holley building, “John” spots the suspect, who runs away, according to the affidavit. “John” chases after him.
Around 4 p.m. A shooting occurs inside a first-floor classroom of the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, where Brown University economics professor Rachel Friedberg told Ocean State Media her students were holding a review session for their Principles of Economics course.
4:05 p.m.: A man dressed in black clothing, identified as a person of interest, walks down Hope Street and rounds a corner after leaving the scene of the shooting, according to an 11-second video later released by police.
The suspect was caught on camera walking on Hope Street and taking a right on Waterman Street.
4:22 p.m.: Brown University alerts the campus to an active shooter near the Barus and Holley building, instructing students to lock doors, silence phones, stay hidden, and run if they are in the area.
Just before 5 p.m.: The university erroneously reports that a suspect is in custody. (A 5:22 p.m. update said no suspect was in custody and that the search was continuing.)
5:11 p.m.: The university instructs the campus to continue sheltering in place.
6:33 p.m.: Two people are confirmed dead and nine people are being treated at the hospital, according to the university. A Providence police affidavit says “police would discover numerous 9-millimeter shell casings in the hallway and steps leading down to the bottom of the auditorium.”
11:06 p.m.: Police set a perimeter around part of Brown’s campus and instruct those inside it to continue to shelter in place. Officials search administrative buildings to escort anyone inside to an area outside the perimeter.
1:53 a.m.: Brown President Christina Paxson says the nine members of the campus community taken to local hospitals are all students; eight remain hospitalized and one has been treated and released. The university remains under a shelter-in-place order.
Around 4 a.m.: A person of interest is apprehended at the Hampton Inn in Coventry, R.I., according to information later provided by a source in the Providence Police Department.
5:42 a.m.: The campus shelter-in-place order is lifted. Police activity continues in areas still considered active crime scenes, and access to those parts of campus remains limited.
7 a.m.: Police announce they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the shooting, after the person of interest was detained Sunday morning.
8:24 a.m.: Brown Provost Francis J. Doyle III says all classes, exams, and papers or projects will not take place as scheduled and that students are free to leave campus if they can.
11:38 a.m.: FBI Director Kash Patel says in a social media post that authorities used cellphone data to locate the person detained in Coventry Sunday morning.
3:08 p.m.: The university cancels all remaining in-person exams across its schools.
11 p.m.: Officials announce during a late news conference that the man law enforcement had detained earlier in the day would be released.
2:30 p.m.: Providence Police release a second video of the potential suspect. The 19-second video, which appears to be surveillance footage from a commercial building, does not show the individual’s face. It shows a person walking east on Waterman Street about one minute after police said the gunman exited the Barus and Holley building on campus.
5 p.m.: Providence Police and the FBI release new images of a person of interest. The FBI says the person responsible for shooting is believed to be “armed and dangerous.”
8:30 p.m.: Police respond to reports of shots fired at 9 Gibbs St. in Brookline and find MIT Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro with gunshot wounds in the entry to his home. He is later pronounced dead.
9 a.m.: FBI offers reward of “up to” $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Brown University shooter.
4 p.m.: The FBI and Providence Police release new video of the person of interest.
5:30 p.m.: Ted Docks, special agent in charge of FBI Boston, says there does not seem to be a connection between Saturday’s shooting at Brown and the shooting of the MIT professor in Brookline.
Morning: A Brown faculty member alerts Rhode Island State Police on Wednesday morning to “a suspicious vehicle” seen in the neighborhood on Dec. 11, according to an affidavit. Investigators later detect the vehicle on video surveillance, leading them to Neves Valente’s rental purchase at a Boston Alamo Rent a Car on Dec. 1.
12:30 p.m.: Providence police ask public’s help in identifying a new individual who was seen near the Brown campus “in proximity of the person of interest.”
4 p.m.: Police release photos of a person they want to speak to, who was “close enough [to the suspect] that we feel that we need to speak with them.”
That evening, the man police have identified only as “John” contacts local police and sits down for an interview.
“The initial encounter involved John locking eyes with the suspect,” an affidavit says, adding that when John later asked the suspect why he was circling the block, the other man replies, “I don’t know you from nobody,” and repeatedly asks why John is “harassing” him. John also identifies surveillance images of the suspect’s vehicle during his interview.
“When viewing the images, he said ‘Holy [expletive], that might be it,’” an affidavit says.
3 p.m.: Law enforcement officials say they are investigating a link between the shooting inside the engineering building at Brown and the killing in Brookline of Loureiro, who was a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics at MIT.
4 p.m.: Sources reveal investigators have the identity of a person of interest.
7:45 p.m.: Police officers are seen gathering at a storage facility in Salem, N.H.
9:30 p.m.: Law enforcement sources say the suspect has been found dead. They identify him as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old native of Portugal.
Also Thursday, investigators learn that Neves Valente had “changed his drop-off location” for the vehicle from the Boston facility to an Alamo location at “Hartford/Bradley Field Airport” in Hartford, Conn., according to an affidavit.
The filing says Neves Valente “has been recently linked to an address at 1079 Commonwealth Avenue” in Boston, the address of a luxury apartment complex. The filing doesn’t elaborate.
11:13 p.m. The Norfolk District Attorney’s office, which is investigating Loureiro‘s slaying, releases a statement saying it’s “aware of [federal authorities] reporting that the suspect in the Brown University shooting is dead.”
The statement says that while “our case remains active and ongoing, we await more information and evidence from our federal partners. That information will be shared over the course of the days and weeks ahead.”
Spencer Buell can be reached at spencer.buell@globe.com. Follow him @SpencerBuell. Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com.
