BREAKING: Brown U. shooter, linked MIT professor murder, found dead in storage facility by suicide

A split image shows Claudio Neves-Valente, wearing the same jacket as a man identified earlier as a person of interest in the case. (Providence Police Department)

Authorities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts announced late Thursday that the manhunt for the gunman responsible for last Saturday's deadly shooting at Brown University, and the subsequent murder of an MIT nuclear physics professor, has come to a grim end. 

The suspect, identified as 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, was found dead in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Providence police named Neves-Valente as the shooter who killed two students and wounded nine others during a finals-week economics review session in the Barus and Holley Building on Brown's campus.

Neves-Valente had a brief and troubled history at Brown, enrolling as a physics Ph.D. student in fall 2000 before taking a leave of absence and withdrawing in 2003, according to university president Christina Paxson.

"I think it's safe to assume that this man, when he was a student, spent a great deal of time in that building for classes and other activities as a Ph.D. student in physics," Paxson said. "He has no current active affiliation with the university or campus presence."

The building, which houses physics and engineering departments, was the site of the attack around 4 p.m. on December 13. 

Investigators later connected Neves-Valente to the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his Brookline home on Monday, about 50 miles from Providence. Both men had attended Portugal's Instituto Superior Técnico around the same time, with Neves-Valente reportedly terminated from a monitor position there in 2000.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah B. Foley confirmed the link in a separate briefing: "This evening at approximately 9 p.m., federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire, in search of Claudio Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national we believed shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts," she told reporters in a separate news briefing. "Federal agents found Neves-Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

A split image showing multiple still frames from the surveillance video taken near Brown University of a person of interest before and after a school shooting Saturday. (FBI Boston) Early leads included surveillance footage of a stocky, masked figure with a distinctive gait, as noted by body language expert Susan Constantine. Police also briefly questioned and cleared another individual.

The victims killed at Brown were Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia. Six survivors remained hospitalized in stable condition as of Thursday.The case broke open thanks to tips on a rental car seen near campus, leading to images of Neves-Valente and eventually the New Hampshire storage unit.

With the suspect dead, questions about motive linger, and the investigation continues. The communities around both elite institutions, already on edge after the attacks, can at least breathe a sigh of relief that the immediate threat has ended.

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Brown University Shooting: Person of Interest Nabbed, But the Ivy League Admin Fumble is Priceless

Look, folks, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Providence officials finally had some good news after that horrific shooting at Brown University the day before.

"Effective immediately, we are lifting the shelter in place for Brown and the related area."Mayor Brett Smiley, trying to sound reassuring at an early presser, announced they'd detained a "person of interest" in the attack that turned an economics exam review session into a nightmare.

"We are able to report that we have detained a person of interest involved in yesterday’s shooting," Smiley said. "Colonel Perez will speak in a minute about that update. Second, I want to let the Providence community know that effective immediately, we are lifting the shelter in place for Brown and the related area."

"The people of Providence should breathe a little easier this morning," he added, because nothing says "relax" like a masked gunman bursting into a classroom and opening fire. Police Chief Colonel Oscar Perez chimed in, confirming the detainee is in their 30s (or 20s—details are a bit fuzzy there), and they're not hunting anyone else right now. Sparse on specifics, as usual.

The whole mess went down during a review for an econ class, with the shooter storming in and unloading.

But the real head-scratcher was Brown President Christina Paxson catching flak on Saturday for being completely in the dark, six full hours after the shots rang out, about what exactly was happening in that classroom.

Paxson admitted she'd been in D.C. when it happened and hopped a flight back ASAP. "I'm just catching up," she said.

Then came the grilling: "President, with all due respect, SIX HOURS after the shooting, you don't know what was going on in that classroom? How does that happen? Were they taking an exam? Were they meeting for a club?"

"I don’t know,” Paxson replied, looking bewitched, bothered and bewildered. "Six hours later. You're the president. You don't know?" the reporter pressed, incredulous. "I do not know," Paxson repeated.

"That’s kind of concerning," the reporter noted.

No kidding. In the age of instant everything, the head of an elite Ivy can't get a basic update on a mass shooting on her own campus for half a day? That's the kind of leadership that makes you wonder if they're too busy with DEI seminars to handle actual crises.

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In the aftermath, Brown scrapped all final exams, poof, gone. Students were told to pack up, head home, and prioritize "safety and well-being." "For the moment, we encourage everyone to focus on their own safety and well-being," the provost said.

Hey, at least the kids get a pass on finals. Silver lining in a tragedy, I suppose. But seriously, prayers for the victims and their families, this shouldn't happen anywhere, let alone on a college campus.

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Dept. of Ed. scolds Brown U. for taking 'no or little action' over their anti-Semitism

Maybe it's called Brown University for more than one reason as pro-Hamas students have been taking over the campus to celebrate Hamas' attempts to complete their genocidal efforts in Israel while claiming Israel is the genocidal ones. 

Now a federal civil rights investigation into anti-Semitism reports at the ivy league school since the slaughter of Israelis on October 7, 2023 has concluded Monday. The investigation found the school's lack of response to its Jewish students amid the surge of dangerous anti-Semitism was unacceptable.

The school also failed to adequately address complaints of anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim harassment, the U.S. Department of Education said in order to equate the two, if indeed it existed.

The Brown investigation was initially triggered in January following a complaint by a Jewish non-student of the school. But the final report cites a combined 75 incidents of purported anti-Semitic, anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim harassment between October and March. The school didn’t handle these complaints properly and must revise its process for doing so, investigators said.

Hundreds of Jewish students attacked the pro-Palestinians and Muslim students and it turned out to be a bloodbath. Or else I made it up. Moral equivalency is just another tool in the left's toolbox. It's highly unlikely that the same viciousness occurred against Muslim students and those who support terrorism. It's usually the supporters of terrorism who are more trouble than Jews.

“The university appears to have taken no or little action in response other than to acknowledge receipt of the reports, list support resources, and request to meet with the complainant, consistent with its policies then in effect,” a statement from the department read.

Meanwhile, Queers for Palestine still have not traveled to the war-torn land of Gaza to lend assistance in the cause against the, you know, Jews.

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Brown U. to offer segregated dinners for Muslims & black students

In order to promote "racial reconciliation," Brown University (you'll soon understand why the color they named the school is appropriate) will host dinners for Muslim women and black students, segregating them from white, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and atheist  students. 

Because if you want to promote racial harmony and understanding, you keep races separated and don't allow them to interact.

The trigger that elicited this cowardly response came after the violent clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlotessville, Va. last month when a cretin white supremacist POS plowed his vehicle into the crowd of counter-protesters.

According to The Brown Daily Herald, the university received a $30 thousand grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which represents liberal arts schools. Those are schools that teach useful courses such as LGBTQA Slang, Peruvian Underwater Basket Weaving and other courses that will get you a welfare check every month.

These grants, provided with the assistance of the Newman's Own Foundation (I love the Classic Italian dressing), W.K. Kellogg Foundation (who can forget Snap, Crackle and Pop--ironically, they're all white), will go towards hosting racially and religiously segregated "dinner discussion groups."

The discussions will be led by Brown University Chaplain Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson. 

The very, very much Reverend Al Sharptongue wasn't asked to lead the group for some unknown reason. As an expert on making money via race-baiting, he is undestandably upset and blames it on "those damn Hymies." 

Rev. Nelson told The Daily that "one [group will be] for black students and the other [will be for] Muslim women on campus. She said that she hopes the Muslim women's dinner group will "allow the women to engage in topics such as the intersection of race, Islam and gender fluidity--which explains why no Muslim men are invited to the dinner group since gender fluidity is punishable by death in Islam as are a whole host of other 'un-Islamic' things. 

Just try going in drag to a mosque and see what happens.

The Amer. Ass. of Colleges and Universities will host the inaugural "Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Institute" this January in Wash. D.C. Representatives from the ten chosen campuses will attend, but white Christians, Jews and atheists need no apply because the discussions will be about getting along with each other and they don't want you going there is you're guilty of being unlike them either racially or Muslimly.

Last spring, Harvard hosted a blacks-only student graduation ceremony and a number of sheep-like schools followed suit. The purpose of the ceremony was to promote understanding between the races and harmony.

Makes perfect sense. 


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