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FBI: Brown-MIT Shooter Targeted Places Representing Personal Failure, Grievance
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FBI: Brown-MIT Shooter Targeted Places Representing Personal Failure, Grievance

Federal investigators revealed that Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University student, spent years planning attacks at institutions he associated with personal failure. On December 13, he killed two students and wounded nine at Brown's engineering building. Two days later, he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts. Valente was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire, ending a multistate manhunt.

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FBI: Brown University Shooter Targeted Institutions Representing Personal Failures
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FBI: Brown University Shooter Targeted Institutions Representing Personal Failures

Federal investigators released a behavioral assessment Wednesday detailing how former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national, carried out a mass shooting at Brown on December 13, 2025, killing two students and wounding nine others. Two days later, he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. The FBI said Valente did not act randomly but targeted places representing his personal failures, missed opportunities and perceived injustices. He was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in Salem, New Hampshire, ending a multistate search.

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