Did 30-year feud drive Brown University
shooter to kill MIT professor?
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Imogen Garfinkel
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
12/19/2025 11:36:52 AM
Investigators have revealed that the gunman responsible for killing two students at Brown University also killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days later.
The motives of 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente for both attacks remains unclear, but federal prosecutors on Thursday disclosed an interesting detail about the relationship of the killer to one of his victims.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the 47-year-old MIT professor, was fatally shot at his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline by his former classmate.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/19/2025 11:54:34 AM (No. 2043289)
More info in this article than in any presser or orher article. John was a key witness.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/19/2025 1:53:44 PM (No. 2043330)
Lots of good info. The killer was pretty methodical and reasonably careful to not be tracked easily, but still, renting a car, using an email account, these are going to be tracked in today's massive...."track every car, every day, every where" government controlled world.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hermoine 12/19/2025 2:05:17 PM (No. 2043331)
While there may be a lot more info, the connection b/t these two crimes makes ZERO sense.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 12/19/2025 2:07:12 PM (No. 2043332)
Whataya wanna bet he was PAID to ASSISSINATE the 2 students and the Prof? I bet he did not expect to be killed for his "attention to this matter".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/19/2025 2:11:01 PM (No. 2043333)
Apparently his mobile phone with a European SIM card was not traceable aorig to aother TV report.
While all the Proidence blowharfs are congratulating themselves, it appears that "John" was the real key to catching gthiis guy.
Something went terribly wrong between these two Portuguese former classmates. It will come out, I hope.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/19/2025 2:12:33 PM (No. 2043334)
blowhards...alrhough my typo works, too!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
minuteman 12/19/2025 2:34:55 PM (No. 2043336)
My guess at this point is that he was an unhinged nutcase with a personal vendetta against Brown and Dr. Loureiro.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/19/2025 5:25:15 PM (No. 2043380)
Two or three decades ago, Law and Order had an episode along this line. Rivalry in physics is notorious for producing bitter enemies. It’s not a stretch that one of these people could crack.
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Can I make an analogy? This whole crime spree at MIT and BU reminds me of fictional Walter White from the Breaking Bad series. Walter became a drug king-pin and murderer. If you remember Walter started a company called Gray Matter that he started in college with his buddies. Walter eventually sold his interest in the Gray Matter company, for a few thousand dollars. The company eventually became a billion dollar company run by his college buddy. Walter carried this grudge the rest of his life, that led to his life of crime.
Could art have imitated real life when this genius, also from Portugal like the MIT professor?
Could it be that the murderer felt he had more recognition coming from his contributions to
the much more famous Prof at MIT? I probably watch too much TV. It was a thirty year old grudge that finally came to a sad, deadly conclusion.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/19/2025 8:07:19 PM (No. 2043418)
I very seriously doubt that ge was paid. This smells like a nutcase who festered for decades and finally decided to "get even" with those who he irrationally blamed for his failures.
Rational people can't readily understand how the deranged, nonlinear mind works. The are called 'deranged' because they can't be understood, brain is broken.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/19/2025 8:59:16 PM (No. 2043429)
I think #7 is pretty close. The shooter may have been suicidal and decided to take out 'enemies' old and new.
The horrible thing is killing innocent people along with your perceived targets. If you want to off yourself, please go somewhere private and leave the rest of us alone.
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Whomever shot the students at the university was targeting her. The other student killed may have been unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Why this guy would target a student I doubt he knew, and then moved on to kill someone else in a grudge seems too convenient. It defies logic. The key to what happened at Brown is whether this guy has any intereractions with the girl. I think the kille being found dead in a storage room is too convenient. Why did they scrub the university site of info on the Queer Palestinian activist immediately after the shooting?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PostAway 12/20/2025 5:28:11 AM (No. 2043453)
I’m the sort of person who finds nearly all conspiracy theories eye roll-o’ramas - tedious and pointless. But not all. It’s convenient that dead men don’t talk and that there seems to be no curiosity anymore in the press about the Palestinian activist Mustapha Khalbour and his location. Portuguese terrorists running around America killing innocent people are not a common occurrence.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/20/2025 5:35:02 AM (No. 2043454)
FTA: "The motives of 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente for both attacks remains unclear,"
It was revealed yesterday that Valente yelled "Allahu Akbar" when shooting the students... Motive seems pretty clear to me. Then again, I'm not stupid enough to believe anything Brown Univ has to say.
There will never be Peace on Earth so long as Islam exists in any form. After 1000 years of murder and mayhem enough is enough!
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Two points:
1. I'll admit I was wrong in suspecting the perp was a member of one or more "protected sub-species".
2. If I ever begin a life of crime, I'll keep in mind what I learned via this case about L.E. investigative methods. I.e., keep plenty of stolen or counterfeit license plates on hand, always wear a surgical mask when near the scene of your intended crime, change clothing (in private) when leaving/entering the vicinity of the crime, and don't personally spend a lot of time casing the area of your intended crime. Also, of course don't leave fingerprints or DNA behind.
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