Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national who was found dead on Thursday, had entered the US on a student visa. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that initially, Valante entered the US on a student visa but was granted lawful permanent resident status, NBC news reported.
Valente, a Portuguese national, arrived in the US in August 2000 on an F-1 visa to attend Brown University, where he studied physics until April 2001, the university said.He left the country in December 2000 and returned the following month, according to the affidavit. He was issued a Diversity Immigrant Visa in May 2017, several months before he applied for and received lawful permanent resident status later that year, Neronha said.
Does MIT university professor and Valente knew each other?
It is believed that the Brown University shooting suspect attended the same Portuguese university as MIT physics professor Nuno Loureiro, an FBI official said.Nuno Loureiro, 47, was found fatally shot in his Brookline home on Monday night, two days after the shooting at Brown University, officials said. “It is believed that in Lisbon that those two individuals attended the same university in Portugal,” Ted Docks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston field office, said at a news conference tonight. Loureiro attended Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon and was a researcher at the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion at IST Lisbon before he joined MIT, his bio at MIT says. Security video at the Brookline apartment complex where an MIT professor was fatally shot on Monday linked the Brown University shooting to that crime, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said. Investigators identified the vehicle that Valente had rented and drove from Boston to Brown University and back to Boston, Foley said. “And then there was the security footage that captured him within a half-mile of the professor’s residence in Brookline,” she said. “There is video footage of him entering an apartment building in the location of the professor’s apartment,” Foley said. “And then later that evening, he is seen, about an hour later, entering the storage unit wearing the same clothes that he had been seen wearing right after the murder,” she said.
Valente’s educational background
Valente was admitted to Brown University’s graduate school to study in the master of science Ph D programme in physics on September 1-2000, university President Christina H Paxson said. He took a leave of absence in April 2001 and formally withdrew, effective July 31-2003, she said.The suspect enrolled only in physics classes, Paxson said. “The majority of physics classes have always been held in the Barus & Holley building, she said — which is the building where the shooting occurred.”
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