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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Dem mayors want dem illegal immigrants

Liberal mayors in seven major cities have reaffirmed their commitments to break the law by sheltering illegal aliens from federal law enforcement after President-elect Trump said he'd block federal funding for these so-called "sanctuary cities."

While liberals pretend to be the moral party, they are not--they are protecting unvetted foreigners from being held accountable for their actions and leaving innocent Americans vulnerable to some of the miscreants who come here.

Although sanctuary cities vary in their policies, what generally happens is that local police refrain from working along with federal authorities who would identify and deport those who have broken local laws, except in cases where serious crimes have been committed.

Democratic mayors in cities such as: New York, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Providence, R.I. said they would challenge Trump (and evidently the U.S. Constitution) on his attempt to crack down on illegal immigration.

San Francisco would lose a billion dollars annually from the federal government, and the way Democrats run things, it would screw things up even more. The plan these mayors may have is to blame Trump for their dire straits and the gullible liberals will believe that.

The Trump administration would have greater ability to slow down or even suspend the allocation of discretionary grants, especially those related to criminal justice and dispensed by the Justice Department or the Department of Homeland Security, according to Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University.

Turley believes that "there's a great deal the Trump administration could do to carry out the threat." He said that Trump's administration could steer more grant money to cities that cooperate with federal immigration laws, but added that cities could take the administration to court to fight it.

Some city officials argue, "It's not my job, man," regarding how immigration laws sows distrust between illegal immigrant communities and the police.

L.A. doesn't turn over illegal immigrants arrested for low-level (illegal) behavior known as crimes to ICE. You practically have to kill someone before they think about deporting you. Philadelphia allows illegal aliens to commit non-violent crimes (by their definition) before turning them in to ICE. 

What's clear is that Democratic mayors and other authorities believe that their definition of what is moral trumps (no pun intended) the law. That's why nothing was done about "Kate's Law" proposed by Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor." 

Kate's law would demand:

 1. a 10-year maximum prison term for an alien who reenters the U.S. after being denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed on 3 or more prior occasions; and

2. a 5-year mandatory minimum prison term for an alien who reenters after being removed following a conviction for an aggravated felony or following 2 or more prior convictions for illegal entry.

The law was voted down by the Democrat majority Senate when it failed to reach a supermajority needed to defeat a filibuster (60 votes).

The law should be considered a "no brainer" but the liberal brainless refused to pass it.


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