The man identified by law enforcement as the Brown University shooter was Claudio Manuel Neves Valente , a 48‑year‑old former Brown graduate student.

Key facts

  • Authorities publicly named Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspect in the Brown University and related MIT shooting case.
  • Officials said he had attended Brown about 25 years earlier but had no current affiliation with the university.
  • He was later found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, and investigators stated he died by suicide.

Context of the case

  • The shooting at Brown University left two students dead, Ella Cook (19) and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov (18), during an economics review session in a campus auditorium.
  • The events prompted a multi‑state manhunt involving federal and local agencies before Valente was located.

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