2025 Brown University shooting

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On December 13, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. The shooter, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the Barus and Holley Building and killed two students and wounded nine other students who were attending a review session, and then fled the scene before police arrived. Two days later, on December 15, Nuno Loureiro, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor and former classmate of Valente, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. During a five-day manhunt by the FBI and local police, officials released images and videos of the perpetrator, whose identity was initially unknown to authorities. Valente was a Portuguese national with United States permanent resident status. He dropped out of Brown's graduate school in 2001. On December 18, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot inside a storage unit in New Hampshire. He was...

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