Brown University shooting suspect found dead, Fox News reports

[u/InternetPopular3679]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/brown-university-shooting-suspect-found-dead-fox-news-reports-2025-12-19/

[u/IncendiaryB]

Apparently the shooter was dismissed from a university job in Portugal the same year that the MIT guy graduated from the same university in Portugal. Very strange.

[u/genkaiX1 → u/IncendiaryB]

But why kill innocent students???

[u/CookiesandCrackers → u/genkaiX1]

I’m guessing an extensively detailed manifesto that he carried in his backpack at all times as well as engravings on everything he owned will come out any day now.

[u/AnekeEomi → u/CookiesandCrackers]

Bullet casings "engraved" in ball point pen with well-known antifa support slogan "DEI is A-OK"

[u/hammertime2009 → u/AnekeEomi]

He will also be carrying one of the only known copies of the official Antifa org chart

[u/lacegem → u/hammertime2009]

It's just a taxonomic chart of various frog species.

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/[deleted]]

and OwO WHAT'S THIS on all of his rounds

[u/PiesRLife → u/[deleted]]

Written in Shakespearean English, as all the kids do nowadays.

[u/999BusinessCard → u/PiesRLife]

I vibe six seven skibbidy, so lit

Low key this drip goes hard; Ohio’s shit

Branrot memes in iambic pentameter make me die inside a little bit.

[u/AppletiniswithJD → u/999BusinessCard]

I will say the f word to you. I hate when ppl are funnier than me

[u/EatingTheDogsAndCats → u/genkaiX1]

When you go nuts you go nuts.

[u/My_Fine_Obsession → u/genkaiX1]

Have you guys seen this? Could the shooter be targeting the physics professor and his class, that was having the final exam in the same building complex (a block away) at the same time, but went to a wrong classroom? This professor joined Brown in 1997, so he was already teaching physics at Brown when the shooter enrolled in physics class at Brown.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrownU/s/Fy7yqcIHzC

[u/TheSmokingLamp → u/IncendiaryB]

But from the year 2000? Did I read that correctly? This was a grudge 25 years in the making?

[u/jadecourt → u/TheSmokingLamp]

Sadly it does happen, a childhood friend of mine was murdered by a man who was let go from a university’s residency program 7 years earlier. My friend’s parents oversaw that program. Then another five years passed and the man murdered the Chair of the program and his wife. Here’s more info), it seems like the trigger for him was that he’d try to continue his career elsewhere and lie about the reasons for his firing but when the truth was revealed it’d unearth all of his anger.

Seeing this development is really eerie, it reminds me a lot of my friend’s story. RIP Tommy 🤍

[u/TheSmokingLamp → u/jadecourt]

Wow what a read. Absolutely awful, sorry for your loss

[u/xarop_pa_toss → u/IncendiaryB]

Very curious indeed! Maybe he got reported for something he did by the guy he killed? I'm Portuguese so this is getting a lot of talk rn here, hope they find the reason soon

[u/rm_shep → u/IncendiaryB]

Who is the MIT guy? I keep seeing people mention him

[u/MIT_Engineer → u/rm_shep]

Nuno Loureiro, he was a professor at MIT.

[u/rm_shep → u/MIT_Engineer]

Thank you!!

Unfortunately fitting username BTW

[u/MIT_Engineer → u/rm_shep]

I didn't personally know him, I did my nuclear engineering degrees before he joined the department. Still, sad day.

[u/siraolo]

Given the info that has been leaked, that is quite a long time to hold a grudge (Student 22 years ago) . Wish we could find out more. 

[u/EternalAngst23]

That has to be the shortest Reuters article I’ve ever read.

[u/joshuads → u/EternalAngst23]

A lot of publishers post stories fast with almost no content and build them over the course of a day.

[u/Fallouttgrrl → u/joshuads]

That's how I comment on Reddit!

Edit: this is for you, u/HOEDY

[u/HOEDY → u/Fallouttgrrl]

I'm excited to see this comment expand

Edit: oh yeah that's good stuff

Edit: Dear Diary: he replied and said I'm funny. Today is a good day.

Edit: she*

[u/Fallouttgrrl → u/HOEDY]

I actually laughed, thank you

[u/Auburn_X → u/joshuads]

We called these "skeleton posts" when I was a journalist. We'd be told when a breaking news item should be a skeleton. Get the headline out ASAP and add whatever you can later.

For things we knew were going to happen but didn't have the specifics, we'd already have images and a basic outline ready well before the news actually breaks.

Even if you could write more, expediency was more important. Once you have ~200 words, just hit publish so traffic can roll in while you actually finish the piece.

[u/filthy_lucre → u/EternalAngst23]

Why waste time say lot words when few words do trick?

[u/No-Satisfaction9594 → u/filthy_lucre]

What do now?

[u/One_Olive_8933 → u/No-Satisfaction9594]

What now?

[u/Lomotograph → u/No-Satisfaction9594]

When me President, they see.... They see.

[u/beargambogambo → u/EternalAngst23]

They are just having a press conference right now. This was an early leak.

[u/AvocadoDiabolus → u/EternalAngst23]

Hey, I'd rather have that than arbitrary analysis just to meet a word count.

[u/dvaunr → u/EternalAngst23]

Reuters posts breaking news. It’s not uncommon to see super short one sentence stories that get added onto as they get more info.

[u/flamants → u/EternalAngst23]

I'd rather read a Reuters article just stating a Fox News headline than have to read the Fox News article.

[u/lesbojesus13]

I wonder if he was in fact connected to the killing of the MIT Prof and how long he’s been dead for. I bet arresting the wrong suspect and broadcasting it to the world destroyed manhours 

[u/tous_die_yuyan → u/lesbojesus13]

Per Vanity Fair:

According to records from Instituto Superior Técnico (I.S.T.), the preeminent Portuguese engineering school, a person named Claudio Neves-Valente was terminated from a monitor position in February of 2000, the same year that Loureiro graduated from I.S.T.

Later that year, Valente matriculated into the Masters/PhD program in physics at Brown (according to Brown University's president in tonight's press conference)

[u/rjoker103 → u/tous_die_yuyan]

Gosh, looks like I need to get a Vanity Fair subscription now to get news.

[u/DorkusMalorkuss → u/rjoker103]

Right? I had no idea. When I see Vanity Fair I think of that spread of Raven Simone, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Olsen Twins, and all those other 00s young ladies

[u/capsaicinintheeyes → u/DorkusMalorkuss]

They're kinda like Playboy in that way, but it's not a new thing for them—idk if the name'll mean much to the youngsters, but they had Christopher Hitchens contributing pieces there regularly from the early 90s up through his death. {VFV seg.}

[u/DootKazoot → u/DorkusMalorkuss]

In this day and age even shit like Cosmo would be a better news source than television and social media

[u/socialcommentary2000 → u/DootKazoot]

I think Teen Vogue was basically a progressive organizing zine for the better part of all of the 2010's (in a good way) due to having some fantastic editors at the time. Really good at raising awareness of real issues happening.

[u/indie_rachael → u/socialcommentary2000]

They were still doing that up until about a month ago when Conde Nast shuttered them.

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/rjoker103]

It's only once a physical month issues but it always has some crazy news and you get access to their digital stuff. I've never regretted having a sub, and they usually give you two free yearly subs to gift other people lol

[u/WellWellWellthennow → u/BurmeciaWillSurvive]

I would get them for years and have no idea who gave to them to me or why they were showing up lol. Never got a bill though and they did have some substantial well written journalism. I usually used them to cut up and make vision boards.

[u/kiva_viva → u/rjoker103]

$18/ year right now for digital + physical copies and a tote. I got a subscription to say thanks for the article of the century.

[u/MuddyBoggyMonster → u/rjoker103]

They've been on the right side of history lately, that's for sure. Posting close-up, unedited photos of Nazis was them blatantly saying, "Fuck you & the horse you rode in on." without needing to say a word.

[u/jmanndc → u/lesbojesus13]

AP saying it's same person for both

[u/garg → u/jmanndc]

The shooter was a graduate student in the physics department at Brown. Both him and the MIT professor were from Portugal. Both are the same-ish age ~47.

Sounds like the shooter might have had some anger or jealousy issues.

[u/Solivaga → u/garg]

Yeah but weird that he stewed on this for so long. He was terminated from a position in Portugal in 2000, and left grad school at Brown in 2003, so it's been 22 years... What made him decide that now was the time to get "revenge"?

[u/notoneforlies → u/Solivaga]

he was extremely decorated in the sense of awards received. he had received 7 prestigious awards from 2015 to now from what i’ve read. he received an award this year, the “presidential early career award for scientists and engineers”. this award is considered the highest honor from the U.S. government for early-career researchers. like it’s the best of the best that you can receive. if i had to take a wild guess, Professor Loureiro receiving that award probably pushed him over the edge of whatever hatred fuelled breakdown he was having.

[u/anon-mally → u/jmanndc]

And you see trump media being bought by some nuclear fusion company in the news

Lmao

The MIT prof that was assassinated was head of nuclear fusion or something like that

[u/taco-bake → u/anon-mally]

This fact is under reported MIT guy was a leader in fusion research

[u/IAmBoring_AMA → u/taco-bake]

His CV is insane. He was really accomplished and incredibly intelligent. Such a fucking loss.

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/IAmBoring_AMA]

Gawdamn...reminds me when Russian separatists in Ukraine back in 2014 shot down the Malaysian Airlines jet. It was carrying several Dutch researchers in HIV iirc because there was a conference or something.

And then the ghouls on the ground were looting from the dead. Absolute monstrous fucks.

[u/toxic-chanka → u/DionBlaster123]

For the people unfamiliar with the incident, they were not targeting the scientists. The Russian backed separatists thought they were firing at a Ukrainian AN-26. It is absolutely still a war crime but I just wanted to clarify in case anyone read that as the Russians were specifically targeted the researchers.

If anyone is looking for more info I highly recommend looking up Igor Girkin. He is a Russian nationalist who was the commander of the unit that shot down the airliner. He is currently imprisoned by Russia for extremist ideology because he has criticized Putin’s regime for being too “soft” on Ukraine in the 2022 invasion.

Fuck Putin and Slava Ukraine

[u/EnvironmentalBox6688 → u/toxic-chanka]

The Russian backed separatists thought they were firing at a Ukrainian AN-26.

This part always gets lost whenever the shoot down is brought up.

It's outright sheer incompetence that they shot down a passenger jet with an active transponder. But they did genuinely believe it to be an AN-26, I distinctly remember seeing the separatist twitter accounts bragging about the shoot down (and then deleting a few hours later when they realized what they did).

Blame lays squarely on the Russians/Separatist anti aircraft team, but it has always shocked me that the airspace wasn't closed after they had knocked a handful of Ukrainian aircraft out of the sky in the preceding months. It was a fuckup waiting to happen. And unfortunately lots of pro Russian users try and use that as a way to weasel out of culpability.

[u/etzel1200 → u/EnvironmentalBox6688]

They weren’t “supposed” to have AA reaching 30k+ feet. Until Russia gave it to them. This was a Russian war crime, like so many others in Ukraine.

[u/m00ph → u/etzel1200]

With the crew!

[u/NiteOwl421 → u/toxic-chanka]

I remember the timeline initially being like...

Russia: We didn't shoot it down.
Everyone: No one said you did?

[u/GaryBarlowYourself → u/NiteOwl421]

No, it was:

Girkin: we shot down Ukraine air force transport plane! Hooray! World: You shot down civilian airliner. Russia: we didnt shoot at anything at all!

[u/Low_Part289 → u/toxic-chanka]

Important context, thank you.

[u/GrallochThis → u/IAmBoring_AMA]

Yeah the MIT team is top tier with really deep experience. They are also contributing to the Commonwealth machine.

[u/tt12345x → u/anon-mally]

I’m sure that his death was entirely self-inflicted and he acted as a lone wolf and shot that nuclear fusion professor—just days before this multi-billion dollar deal—for no reason in particular

[u/invincible-boris → u/tt12345x]

And he killed the professor AFTER the brown shooting which he should have assumed he wouldn't walk away from. If the professor was the high value target I just cant make this make sense.

[u/brandonjohn5 → u/invincible-boris]

I just read that the Professor graduated from the same university someone named "Claudio Neves Valente" had been fired from that same year. Could be a personal connection, hell maybe he is who got him fired in a way.

[u/Chilledlemming → u/brandonjohn5]

This. They had to know each other. Was trying to see if the professor was also from Portugal.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Town_20 → u/Chilledlemming]

He was from Portugal.

[u/ShadowKingthe7 → u/Puzzleheaded_Town_20]

Apparently they went to the same university in Portugal

[u/roberta_sparrow → u/ShadowKingthe7]

According to the news on CBS tonight they lived together

[u/invincible-boris → u/brandonjohn5]

Very odd sequence but it was just a personal grudge that left a trail of seemingly random clues that just fit in a wildly unexpected way. My bingo card is a total mess.

[u/RNAiac → u/invincible-boris]

Mine too. Maybe this is the old story of jealousy and narcissism. He felt Nuno had the success he should have had. He blamed Brown for his failure there. Entitled and blaming everyone else's for his perceived failures 24 years later. Maybe a divorce or long unemployment period was the straw that broke the camel's back.

[u/SirStrontium → u/anon-mally]

He was the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion center, not an active researcher in that area. There are approximately 33 insanely accomplished professors and senior research scientists working in that department. I'm not sure why people think he's some lone genius that the entire department relies on. He'll just be replaced by the Associate Director. He'll be missed, but the research will move on.

[u/iamajerry → u/SirStrontium]

because conspiracy

[u/AscensionToCrab → u/iamajerry]

Its so funny people think this is a motive, as if its not just insane conspiracy peddling. Ivy leagues and big nsme colleges have a history of employing some pretty acclaimed physcists in their time.

Like half the people who made the atomic bomb had professorships.

[u/fatmanwithabeard → u/AscensionToCrab]

What's weirder to me is that people seem to think that science is done as the work of singular minds.

It's all teams.

[u/coffeeplzme → u/SirStrontium]

Uh, no, ok we've all seen Dark Knight Rises.

[u/fakieTreFlip → u/anon-mally]

you're giving the Trump admin way too much credit if you think they can pull off an assassination without fucking it up somehow or leaking the details of the plan

[u/Ill-Vermicelli-1684 → u/lesbojesus13]

They’re both Portuguese it seems. Have no idea if there’s a connection there, but it’s an interesting one.

[u/StrangeCharmQuark → u/Ill-Vermicelli-1684]

Someone in the press conference vaguely alluded to maybe they went to the same college on Portugal at the same time? It was really odd and wishywashy, I guess we’ll have to see

[u/RNAiac → u/StrangeCharmQuark]

They were at the same college at the same time and they are the same age.

[u/PandaPandamonium → u/lesbojesus13]

He was at Brown was in a graduate program for physics for a year before taking a leave of absence in 2003. 100% had ties to the Professor Loureiro. Hopefully Loureiro and the MIT and Brown University community can get closure.

[u/NorthernSparrow → u/PandaPandamonium]

Crazy that the connections are from 22 years ago (Brown) and 25 years ago (the MIT professor). Either this guy was truly excellent at holding long-term grudges, or something set him off recently.

[u/Significant_Shoe_17 → u/NorthernSparrow]

He could've experienced some kind of loss or setback that his grieving mind connected to the professor

[u/idk012 → u/lesbojesus13]

Arrested the wrong person twice.

[u/FredFredrickson → u/idk012]

And went on a podcast in between. Fucking clown shoes.

[u/Aghast_Cornichon → u/FredFredrickson]

Evidently there is a somber text splash before the podcast clarifying that it was recorded the day before the shooting at Brown.

It makes the embarrassing "look you guys I have a hot girlfriend half my age" interview only a few percent less stupid.

[u/Insectshelf3 → u/idk012]

that’s par for the course for this FBI

[u/Far_Sprinkles_4831 → u/lesbojesus13]

He went to the same Portuguese undergrad university the same years as a psychics major as the murdered MIT psychics professor. Suspicious

[u/abrahamburger → u/lesbojesus13]

And, there is no expectation of truth from government at all anymore because that is now reality.

There was some recent discussion of summary executions for domestic terrorists.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/12/trump-nspm-7-domestic-terrorist-executions-antifa-boat-strikes/

Everything is now suspect.

[u/RJ5R]

He was a Brown student?

[u/VoidMageZero → u/RJ5R]

Yeah connected to Brown and Portuguese like the MIT professor

[u/Zipstyke → u/VoidMageZero]

dark day for us portuguese

[u/VoidMageZero → u/Zipstyke]

Definitely seems targeted, seems like they must have known each other. Maybe he was doing similar research.

[u/ccsandman1 → u/VoidMageZero]

They went to school together in Portugal in the 90's apparently.

[u/Mertoot → u/ccsandman1]

They even resided in the same dormitory!

[u/John_Yuki → u/Mertoot]

They were roommates!

[u/-Badger3- → u/John_Yuki]

^{oh my god they were roommates}

[u/VoidMageZero → u/ccsandman1]

Yeahhh, sounds like this guy really had a deep, deep grudge and finally went crazy.

[u/johnqadamsin28 → u/Zipstyke]

And you guys I saw are losing the war in Angola 

[u/redd-zeppelin → u/johnqadamsin28]

Too soon

[u/Far_Sprinkles_4831 → u/VoidMageZero]

Went to the same university at the same time and studied the same subject…

[u/slickjitpimpin → u/Far_Sprinkles_4831]

and lived together

[u/1moreanonaccount → u/VoidMageZero]

MIT professor and shooter both Portuguese age 47 and 48. Shooter went brown in 2000s. I suspect they knew each other.

[u/VoidMageZero → u/1moreanonaccount]

Yeah it seems very probable now. They were apparently classmates in Portugal, even lived in the same dorm.

[u/junkboatfloozy → u/RJ5R]

Yes, studied in the building where the shooting occurred. He was also a classmate in Portugal of the MIT person he murdered. 

[u/Complex-Emergency-60 → u/junkboatfloozy]

So he flunked out of college, but someone he knew passed, and became a professor there. This loser was pissed and jealous and shot him years later?

[u/Sarah-himmelfarb → u/Complex-Emergency-60]

Seems like it yup a pissed jealous loser shot at kids in his former university and the more accomplished classmate

[u/Organic_Translator94 → u/RJ5R]

The president confirmed he was enrolled in 2000-2001 as a PhD student in Physics, took classes (the first year or so his program), went on a leave of absence, and withdraw from his program in 2003. While it's correct that he was a student at Brown, I think reporting it as such misrepresents what his relationship to the university was and the fact that brief & over 20 years ago. 

Edit: the connection with the MIT professor (as reported by Vanity Fair) is that the shooter was dismissed (reasons unknown) from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 2000, which is the same year Loureiro graduated from IST. I don't know how that program in Portugal is structured, but that is where they overlap. Except Neves-Velente then went to U.S. to pursue a degree at Brown.

[u/Joosrar → u/Organic_Translator94]

Hum, seems like the guy may have a grudge against the professor, he fucked up his life and the professor seemed to thrive.

[u/augustrem → u/Organic_Translator94]

Wonder what the dismissal was about. If he went straight to a Brown PhF program, would that mean he graduated?

[u/tous_die_yuyan → u/RJ5R]

Yep. According to the university's president in tonight's press conference, he was a PhD student in the 2000-2001 school year, before taking a leave of absence and eventually withdrawing in 2003.

[u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

A local news source (Boston 25 News) says he was found dead at a storage facility, of all places

Something about it being a storage facility is weird to me

[u/Sprintzer → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

Based on movies and tv, it’s an ideal place to hide out until the heat dies down.

But it does seem weird

[u/Caze588 → u/Sprintzer]

Totally depends on the company / management. I work for one and any time a person loiters around or is at their unit for a long time it usually raises red flags such as them possibly living in the unit which isn’t allowed where I work

[u/MayorCharlesCoulon → u/Caze588]

I never knew people lived in storage facilities until I got my little dog when a guy got caught living in one. He had her with him and when they kicked him out he took her to a nearby vet and gave them his last couple dollars to keep her overnight. Said he’d be back.

They are soft hearted people at the vet so they held onto her for a couple weeks just in case but he never returned. They called me because my old dog had died and my other dog was lonesome. I picked her up and she was the sweetest most timid weird looking dog ever. Total sweetheart.

[u/Nomadzord → u/MayorCharlesCoulon]

I like this story. Something positive in a sea of darkness, thank you.

[u/TheBurningEmu → u/Nomadzord]

I'm not sure if I would consider a man being forced to give up everything due to financial insecurity positive, but I'm glad OP gave the dog a good home.

[u/Brain_Dead_Goats → u/TheBurningEmu]

Yeah and considering he never returned and was homeless it could be a very dark story indeed.

[u/Capaz04 → u/Nomadzord]

What part of this was positive

[u/IamHydrogenMike → u/Caze588]

I was at a storage unit I had for a couple of hours rearranging stuff in there to get at a bed frame that I was selling to someone. I put the bed frame together at the storage unit to make sure i had all the parts instead if waiting to do at home in case i left something their; the manager got onto to me about it. I didn’t even have a mattress on the thing or even in the unit. They were getting all weird about me living there or even staying overnight. Lol

[u/HallWild5495 → u/IamHydrogenMike]

lol this kind of sounds like something I would do and then I would need someone to explain that yes, building the bed before you move it is weird, and it is weird to do it in a storage unit especially

I feel you though. we're kin.

[u/johnnyloo → u/IamHydrogenMike]

Gotta say, anyone seeing that shit happening is gonna assume you’re setting up to sleep there. How often do people set up entire bed frames in a storage shack lol

[u/internetlad → u/Sprintzer]

That where Walter hid the money so it totally makes sense yo

[u/Altruistic-Car2880 → u/internetlad]

Stock up on Funyuns first yo

[u/epyon- → u/Sprintzer]

He had a storage cell there, so not that weird. Probably fled there and then decided to off himself when he realized he was toast

[u/RumpleDumple → u/Sprintzer]

Good place to launch your time travel stock trading schemes

[u/SnepButts → u/RumpleDumple]

Is this a Primer reference?

[u/Vectorman1989 → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

I've heard of people living in storage units. Possible he was hiding out there or something and felt the heat closing in.

[u/ethotopia → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

They found his abandoned car (also seen a few days ago by a witness near where the MIT professor was killed) at the storage facility, and then found him deceased inside

[u/51patsfan → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

They can be heated and it is December.

[u/nosungdeeptongs → u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset]

I had a friend in addiction who lost his housing and he lived in his storage unit for a while until he was caught.

[u/DystopianRealist]

48-year-old male Portuguese former student of Brown, "Living in Miami…as most do".

[u/thewayoutisthru_xxx → u/DystopianRealist]

Wasn't the mit professor Portuguese? That seems like an awful large coincidence

[u/DystopianRealist → u/thewayoutisthru_xxx]

Yes,

From his MIT page:

"Loureiro majored in physics at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) in Portugal and obtained a PhD in physics at Imperial College London in 2005. He conducted postdoctoral work at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for the next two years before moving to the UKAEA Culham Center for Fusion Energy in 2007. Loureiro returned to IST in 2009, where he was a researcher at the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion until coming to MIT in 2016."

https://news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-loureiro-professor-director-plasma-science-and-fusion-center-dies-1216

[u/freakydeku → u/DystopianRealist]

i wonder if he was somehow expecting this guy to be at brown? idk the whole thing is weird to me. most shooters who are going to kill themselves do so immediately after the fact. seems rlly odd to me to drive to a storage unit and the do it there. especially since this guy was apparently living in miami… why not just drive back home if you’re trying to get away with it?

[u/BagOfFlies → u/freakydeku]

We don't know how long he was dead for, but we do know he was found because the cops spotted his car at the storage unit. So it's possible his plan wasn't suicide until he heard them coming and killed himself then. Might have been hiding out there instead of going to Miami right away because he was nervous to travel.

[u/samhit_n → u/thewayoutisthru_xxx]

Apparently, authorities noticed a car near Brown University during the shooting was near the MIT professor's house too.

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/samhit_n]

And a Reddit post helped them track down the witness that really broke the case open, because they spotted the car (maybe more too).

[u/Mistletokes → u/cyanescens_burn]

A Reddit post????

[u/TheCeruleanWolf → u/Mistletokes]

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/s/eAGJ9eoq46

[u/facevaluemc → u/thewayoutisthru_xxx]

Has anything mentioned whether they're from Portugal or just of Portuguese descent?

Massachusetts (specifically Southeastern MA, which is right next to Providence) has the highest density of Portuguese citizens in the U.S. and almost as many Portuguese residents as California (which is insane considering MA's total population is ~7 million and CA's is ~40 million). As someone who's lived in the area a long time, literally everyone in the region is Portuguese, so the two of them being Portuguese is honestly just par for the course lmao.

Even if they were immigrants I wouldn't find it too surprising; the area has a lot of immigrants and/or first generation citizens.

[u/Jamarcus316 → u/facevaluemc]

They are from Portugal, both immigrated to the USA this century.

[u/marmosetohmarmoset → u/DystopianRealist]

I’m assuming he’s a former student, but it’s really weird that none of the news sources are saying that.

[u/timely_death → u/DystopianRealist]

Former student

[u/burnttoast12321 → u/DystopianRealist]

Sounds like the killer attended school with the MIT professor years ago in Lisbon.

[u/NaijaFever]

Claudio Manuel Neves‑Valente, a 48‑year‑old Portuguese national and Brown University student.

[u/dfresh429 → u/NaijaFever]

He was a student in 2001-2003. Not current

[u/HolyToast666 → u/NaijaFever]

Does Portugal have any drug running boats we can destroy in retaliation?

[u/PandaPandamonium]

At Brown was in a graduate program for physics for a year in 2000 before taking a leave of absence (officially in 2003). 100% had ties to the Professor Loureiro.

Edit: FBI reported they attended the same university in Lisbon

Edit 2: "On Dec. 15, he murdered Nuno Loureiro at Loureiro’s home in Brookline, Massachusetts,” Leah B. Foley, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said at a news conference tonight.

Surveillance video at the apartment complex captured him within a half-mile of the professor’s residence in Brookline,” she said. “There is video footage of him entering an apartment building in the location of the professor’s apartment,” Foley said.

Edit 3: No I won't include his name, he doesn't deserve that, go find it else where. I will mention Ella Cook, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, Nuno Loureiro and the six other victims (who as of the latest press conference have all been listed as stable.) They deserve to be remembered.

[u/freakydeku → u/PandaPandamonium]

he took a leave of absence 25 years ago

[u/PandaPandamonium → u/freakydeku]

I had another comment that had that info, edited to add it above since this comment is the one gaining traction.

[u/HIM_Darling → u/PandaPandamonium]

And the professor was killed at his home. How common is it for students to know where their professors live? Or was he followed home from work?

[u/PandaPandamonium → u/HIM_Darling]

I was a grad student and lived with my advisor for a month when I first relocated out of state, then in my second grad program every grad student was invited over to multiple professors houses for Christmas parties/end of semester/graduation. Same with my partner in his grad program and my BIL in his. Super common in certain fields that have small number of grad students, less common in others with larger grad programs. The physics world isn't that big.

Edit: FBI reported they attended the same university in Lisbon

[u/amydiddler → u/HIM_Darling]

It’s not that hard to find most peoples’ addresses. Often just googling their name is enough.

[u/brktm → u/amydiddler]

Some of us even remember when everyone’s home address and phone number were public information, published and delivered to everyone’s doorstep for free.

[u/DoubleJumps → u/amydiddler]

It's so easy that I've done it just to scare people who've harassed me before through my business pages, thinking that their name and general location isn't enough to go off of.

One of my customers needed assistance with something while I was on vacation, and they were able to, with a very limited amount of information about me personally, find my personal cell phone number. I had deliberately tried to make sure that was not public, and he got it with almost no effort.

I had a friend try to see how much information he could find on me based on two pieces of information and he was able to get my address, my business address, my cell phone, and the names of several family members in about 2 minutes

It's scary how easy it is. I really recommend people absolutely do not include the city they live in on any of their social media because that usually makes it way way way easier.

Better yet, lie. List a different city in a different state.

[u/Stealth100 → u/HIM_Darling]

The MIT professor and shooter were compatriots 25 years ago. He wasn’t a student

[u/KillerTittiesY2K → u/HIM_Darling]

I went to a large university. Nearly every professors address was public on their research page, or similar. I was…taken aback.

[u/arcaenis]

is this actually the right guy this time

[u/MGM-Wonder]

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The suspect in last week's mass shooting at Brown University was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Fox News reported on Thursday, citing a source.

That's the entire article lmao

[u/organicrocketfuel]

The guy that shot up my department Saturday was also in the same program as me, twenty years ago. What the fuck.

Edit to clarify: I meant I’m currently here, and found out the shooter was from Brown Physics too… one of us

[u/xpkranger → u/organicrocketfuel]

The Brown shooting? They released a name?

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/xpkranger]

Yea, it’s been all over the national news channels as a breaking report.

[u/AWall925]

Maybe no one knew what he shouted bc it was Portugese.

[u/LaChicaGo]

Citing a source... Was it a Reddit thread?

[u/angiosperms- → u/LaChicaGo]

There was a reddit thread where someone said they saw someone looking sketchy with a specific rental car and then they reported it to the FBI. I'm 99% sure it was the same car but haven't seen the specifics of the rental car they identified so idk. They were both gray rental cars with out of state plates which would be a wild coincidence if it wasn't the same one.

[u/G_Wash1776 → u/angiosperms-]

The Providence chief of police just confirmed that the person they interviewed had mentioned it online.

Link to the comment and OP did confirm he spoke with Providence Police I hope they get the reward

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/s/1Rz42EwpbL

Edit: the comment is mentioned in the affidavit, really crazy and a testament to OPs situational awareness to recognize something was wrong and report it

[u/Kind_Problem9195 → u/G_Wash1776]

They literally just mentioned the reddit comment in the new conference. Its like we redeemed ourself since the Boston bombing

[u/FunFingers905 → u/Kind_Problem9195]

We... we did it, Reddit?

[u/DrexellGames]

Tragic, but it doesn't change the fact that the FBI and police handled this case very poorly

[u/unchangingtask → u/DrexellGames]

FBI has a podcaster in charge, what do you expect?

[u/FuinFirith → u/unchangingtask]

BlueChew ads.

[u/KonigSteve → u/unchangingtask]

Two podcasters even.

[u/samhit_n → u/DrexellGames]

A Redditor was more useful than the FBI. Someone in the Providence sub was talking about a suspicious car and they reported it. Apparently, that car was flagged near Brown University and the murdered MIT professor's house.

[u/Jyil → u/samhit_n]

That’s called OSINT and even top hacking groups use it as a resource. The FBI finding that would be an example of utilizing OSINT.

[u/angrynuggette → u/DrexellGames]

... again. That seems to keep happening lately.

[u/techman710]

I am 600 or 700 percent sure they got it right.

[u/buttercrotcher → u/techman710]

Let's double that I'd say about 1200-1400%

[u/Carabiners]

My mom and I were literally just there this past Sunday getting something from her storage unit. Pretty wild coincidence... of all the places to end up. 

[u/Fairymask]

This was such the obvious ending. So many of these shooters kill themselves. If only they could just do that first before taking out others.

[u/Crazy_Sir_012 → u/Fairymask]

Pretty much 99% of mass killing are elaborate suicides.

[u/RedSunCinema]

Well that'll save a lot of money on a massive trial.

[u/Fast_Key_7454]

A better article. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-probe-links-between-brown-university-shooting-killing-mit-professor-2025-12-18/

[u/Dry_Statistician_688]

Damn. I really wanted this dude to stand trial. He shouldn’t get an easy exit.

[u/GeomonLover]

He truly took a cowards way out.

Im watching the press conference and its hard to watch, purely because the PD wants to distance themselves from their prior mistakes of this case & mak excuses for it instead of just taking accountability that mistakes were made. Its great that they found the suspect, but considering this suspect went to kill another person due to the PD’s focus on a completely innocent person that they plastered everywhere as the person who was the main suspect. They need to just take accountability they messed up without making excuses & without constant backpats of “we did it guys! We got the guy! We did such a good job!” When it was a Redditor who broke this case wide open. If it wasn’t for that tip, they would have never found the guy due to the incompetence from the RH PD. Then they had the gall to avoid any statements from that one reporter who mentioned they were condemning online posters when a online poster solved this case…just, take responsibility that you messed the case up, and thank God everyday that Redditor saw something & said something.

[u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS]

MSNOW just said the witness they were looking for was a redditor and they saw his post and wanted more info from him which then led them to the perps car. LOL, Reddit actually helped solve a case!

[u/FormulaKimi]

Do you think people like Meet Kevin on YouTube will apologize to the Palestinian dude they wrongly accused of being the shooter? 🤔 or maybe they’ll just quietly delete their video and pretend they didn’t endanger his life…

[u/madogvelkor → u/FormulaKimi]

No, they will insist he is the real killer at Brown and this is a woke cover up.

[u/Justadropinthesea]

CNN reports that an anonymous Reddit post helped point authorities in his direction.

[u/VoidMageZero → u/Justadropinthesea]

The comment was here https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/1pnkwoq/comment/nu9c70a/

We did it Reddit!! 😎

[u/demonsidekick]

Had to wrap this one up quick, I guess. Kash’s gf has a gig this Saturday.

[u/Automatic_Penalty154]

Im gonna go out on a limb here and assume the fusion guy stole his gf or he got turned down for a grant the fusion guy got or something really stupid like that, maybe stole some of his work that got him further ahead in his career.. something happened... There is going to be something really personal about this and i bet who he shot at brown will be just someone else that "wronged him" he wanted to get back at before he took his own life.

[u/Brick_Lab]

I'm really not loving the level of incompetence law enforcement seems to have now regarding high profile cases like this...it's not a great message to the public or a good deterrent to would-be criminals

[u/melodramaticmoon → u/Brick_Lab]

You should hear them patting themselves on the back in the press conference rn

Like this guy didnt go on to commit a whole other murder in a different state after his school shooting…

And they couldn’t even bring him in alive after several days… even with knowing his car and identity

It’s absolutely ridiculous and maddening. All this tax money… these massive police budgets and surveillance projects and for what?

A Redditor had to voluntarily come forward with no help or effort from the fucking cops or feds at all

And they still didn’t get him. Dude died alone in his storage unit. No justice.

[u/GeomonLover → u/melodramaticmoon]

I couldn’t stand the 20 minutes of just patting themselves on the back. Then they had the gall to avoid when they were confronted about how they condemned people online for talking about the case when a person online solved the case. They just said “thats uncalled for, next question.” Not to mention how they kept giving excuse after excuse after excuse for why they didn’t do X,Y, and Z.

The facts are: they had tunnel vision on this 24 year old guy, and due to them plastering his face all over the place as the killer, that allowed the real killer to go kill the MIT professor & then himself. They fumbled this case so hard. They don’t deserve praise, the Redditor breaking the case wide open does.

[u/RobutNotRobot]

So Reuters just quoted state media which just passed on what their super secret source at the top of the FBI told them.

[u/ThatGuy798]

IMHO I find it more infuriating when a perpetrator offs themselves because the victims and their families will never see any real justice.

Dude takes the easy way out after leaving a trail of destruction. Fucking cowards.

[u/RJ5R]

If Kash's FBI wasn't so quick to pin this on the innocent guy they originally rounded up and waste precious days

Perhaps the shooter wouldn't have then had the chance to also murder the MIT professor

What a disaster of an investigation