Brown University Shooter Dies by Suicide After Manhunt: Autopsy Reveals 9-Day-Old Body

In a shocking turn of events, the body of Claudio Neves Valente, the alleged shooter who killed two students and a professor, has been found in a New Hampshire storage unit. According to the autopsy report, Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on December 16, 2025, two days before his body was discovered on December 18. The investigation revealed that Valente, a former PhD student at Brown University, had no current ties to the school. He had attended Brown University in the early 2000s and was studying physics. Valente's connection to the university's physics program is being investigated, and officials have confirmed that he was enrolled in physics classes during his time at the school. On December 13, Valente went on a deadly rampage at Brown University's Providence campus, killing sophomore Ella Cook and freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and wounding nine others. He later traveled to Brookline, where he killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and nuclear science professor. The two had crossed paths in the past at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. The discovery of Valente's body has brought an end to a week-long manhunt, and authorities have ruled his death a suicide. The investigation into the shootings is ongoing, and officials are working to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy.