Brown University shooting suspect lived in Miami, authorities say

The man suspected of killing two students and injuring nine at Brown University on Saturday had a last known address in Miami, law-enforcement authorities said Thursday night.

The suspect, 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente from Portugal, was found dead of a gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage facility, Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said during a Thursday night news conference. He was found with a satchel seen on video footage and two firearms, authorities said.

Authorities said Neves Valente last lived in a home at 1310 NE 200th St. in Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade property records show the current owner of the home is not Neves Valente. The 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home, valued at $423,439, sits in a residential neighborhood near Aventura in the northernmost part of Miami-Dade.

News broke late Thursday night of the yellow house’s connection to the mass shooting that has drawn international attention.

The neighborhood was quiet around midnight as a woman walked her small dog in front of the home with its horseshoe driveway and palm trees in the front yard. Neighboring homes were dark except for Christmas lights strung from the trees and houses, along with holiday-themed inflatables.

Authorities have talked to the current residents of the home and discussed if they had possible connections to Neves Valente. They didn’t elaborate.

Florida license and plates

On Tuesday, Providence police were alerted to a Reddit post offering tips about the shooter’s whereabouts that read, “The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. That was the car he [Neves Valente] was driving,” according to the affidavit. The Reddit poster also told authorities they saw Neves Valente in public.

A man named Claudio Manuel Neves Valente rented a Nissan Sentra on Dec. 1 at Alamo Rental Cars in Boston using a Florida driver’s license, authorities said.

Police swarmed Salem, New Hampshire, Thursday after finding the abandoned car with the Florida plates believed to be connected to him. That’s where they found the body in the storage facility.

Authorities said they are also looking into any possible links between the Brown University shooting and the shooting death on Monday of MIT Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47. Loureiro also is a native of Portugal and he and Neves Valente studied together in Lisbon, police said.

Neves Valente attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 as a doctoral student studying physics. He officially withdrew in the fall of 2003.

Authorities said Neves Valente left the United States, but did not disclose when. He returned in September 2017 at JFK airport in New York. He was issued a diversity immigrant visa a few months prior, and attained permanent legal residency.

Miami Herald staff writer Grethel Aguila contributed to this story.

This story was originally published December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM.