Brown University and MIT gunman’s autopsy reveals how long he had been dead during massive manhunt

His autopsy reveals that Brown University and MIT gunman Claudio Neves Valente died two days before he was found by law enforcement.

The body of 48-year-old Neves Valente, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found Thursday evening after a six-day manhunt.

Investigators believe he is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding nine others at Brown and killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno FG Loureiro two days later.

New Hampshire Attorney General John M Formella announced Friday that the state’s chief medical examiner confirmed he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was ruled a suicide.

The report also estimated that he died on Tuesday, about two days before he was discovered at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

Neves Valente revisited his former college in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 13 and fired at least 44 rounds from his 9mm handgun, killing two students and wounding nine others.

There are some witnesses who say he didn’t say anything. “There are people who say it makes a barking sound,” said AG Neronha, adding: “Don’t ask me.” I don’t know why. That’s it. Beyond that, there are no other rumors that we know of.’

The two Brown students killed during the study session were 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook and 18-year-old freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.

Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a six-day manhunt.

Two days later, he traveled 50 miles and met with father-of-three Dr. He fatally shot Loureiro at his home in suburban Boston.

He was found dead in a rental storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced that he had two firearms on him at the time of his death.

Neronha said in a statement Friday that the suspect meticulously planned the attacks and tried to mislead law enforcement. NBC News.

He said the suspect used voice over internet protocol, allowed calls to be made over the internet instead of cell phone service, eschewed ‘traditional’ credit cards and even changed the license plate on his rental car.

Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez told the press that the department should return to ‘old-fashioned policing’ to learn more about the suspect’s cryptic movements.

“This involved interviewing individuals, reviewing hundreds of videos and images,” Perez said.

“This person was strategic in every way; he was using apps to communicate, he was changing license plates on vehicles, he was wearing a face covering, there were clothes he was using, there were areas he was driving,” he added.

The suspect reportedly used two separate firearms during the attacks and the ATF is now comparing ballistics.

Investigators believe Valente is responsible for fatally shooting two students at Brown, wounding nine others, and then killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno FG Loureiro two days later.

Although he tried to cover his tracks, authorities tracked him down just a day after his identity became known, the attorney general said.

However, law enforcement came under fire for failing to identify and locate Neves Valente quickly enough to prevent Loureiro’s murder; critics slammed the FBI after a Reddit user “unlocked the file.”

The suspect, who studied at Brown 20 years ago, was evading police for days but was eventually killed when a Reddit post flagged suspicious activity outside the Ivy League campus.

Authorities said the information came from an internet user who had several strange encounters with Neves Valente on the sidewalk outside Brown University.

The source, known only as ‘John’ in the Providence police affidavit, is hailed by investigators as the key person who gave law enforcement the details needed to determine who was behind Brown’s shooting and Loureiro’s killing.

As police posted images of a person identified as Neves Valente, John took to the social media forum Reddit to theorize that he knew the person and that police should be examining a “possibly rented” gray Nissan.

Reddit users asked him to notify the FBI, and John said he did so. The police statement stated that they learned of the report on December 16, three days after the shooting and one day after the tip line was created.

Up to that point, the police affidavit states, authorities had not secured a vehicle for the would-be shooter.

Neves Valente (pictured) revisited his former university in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 13 and opened fire on students, killing two and wounding nine others.

A Salem Police Department cruiser drives past the storage facility where the suspect behind the Brown University mass shooting was found dead

That detail allowed them to obtain more video of a Nissan Sentra sedan with Florida license plates and gave Providence police officers access to a network of more than 70 street cameras operated throughout the city by the surveillance company Flock Safety.

John provided additional critical details to investigators, the affidavit said.

Just hours before the attack, Neves encountered Valente in the bathroom of the engineering building, where John noted that the suspect’s clothing was ‘inappropriate and inadequate for the weather conditions’.

John also encountered Neves Valente outside, just a few blocks from the building, where he watched her ‘suddenly’ turn away from the Nissan as they made eye contact.

According to John’s statement, a ‘cat and mouse game’ ensued in which the two would confront each other and Neves Valente would escape.

At one point John said, ‘There’s your car, why are you circling the block?’ He says he shouted.

According to the affidavit, ‘The Suspect responded, “I don’t know you from anyone,” before the Suspect repeatedly asked, “Why are you harassing me?” he asked.

John told police he eventually saw Neves Valente approaching the Nissan sedan once again and decided to drive away.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced in X that, at the behest of Trump, she had instructed US Citizenship and Immigration Services to stop the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect to enter the country from Portugal.

Neves Valente entered the United States on an F-1 student visa in 2000 to attend Brown. In 2017, he was granted a ‘diversity immigrant visa’ designed for citizens of countries with lower US immigration rates, according to USCIS.

He gained legal permanent resident status that year, according to an affidavit from a Providence police detective.