Mystery Motive Baffles Brown, MIT With Shooting Suspect Dead
Vigil-goers hold candles and sing together following a mass shooting at Brown University in Lippitt Memorial Park in Providence, Rhode Island on Dec. 14.
Photographer: Ben Pennington/The Boston Globe/Getty ImagesFear has given way to relief as the nearly week-long manhunt for a shooter suspected of killing students at Brown University and a renowned nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came to a close late Thursday. But confusion also reigns: authorities have yet to spell out a motive for the rampage at Brown and the MIT professor’s murder some 50 miles away.
Officials identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspected shooter in both last weekend’s shooting on Brown’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island that killed two people and injured nine others and the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro days later in Brookline, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb.