Officials: MIT and Brown University killings linked to same suspect

Police crime scene tape is seen near the Barus & Holley engineering building at Brown University, the site of a December 13 mass shooting in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. A gunman remained at large after a weekend mass shooting at elite Brown University left two dead and nine wounded, with US authorities releasing new footage of a masked "person of interest" captured on surveillance cameras. The shooting took place December 13 in a building where exams were underway on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island when a man with a rifle burst in and opened fire before fleeing. (Photo by Bing Guan / AFP via Getty Images)
Police crime scene tape is seen near the Barus & Holley engineering building at Brown University, the site of a December 13 mass shooting in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. (Photo by Bing Guan / AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff Sophia Flores 
7:58 PM – Thursday, December 18, 2025

Authorities have confirmed that 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente is responsible for both the Brown University shooting and the shooting of an MIT professor.

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