As investigators work to find a motive behind the mass shooting at Brown University and the slaying of an acclaimed MIT professor, former classmates of the accused killer described him as a brilliant but exceptionally difficult student. Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old suspect who police say was found dead Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, … Read more
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering US Citizenship and Immigration Services to … Read more
Authorities on December 18 announced that they had tracked down the man responsible for both the fatal shooting at Brown University and the shooting death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno FG Loureiro two days later, finding him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Salem, Massachusetts, storage unit. Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, … Read more
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday they are looking for a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to … Read more
By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Rich McKay PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Authorities on Monday renewed a hunt for the gunman who killed two students and wounded seven others at Brown University over the weekend, after releasing a man who had been held on Sunday as a “person of interest” in the shooting. … Read more
YOU NEED TO KNOW One of the two people killed in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, December 13 has been identified. 19-year-old student Ella Cook was confirmed as one of the victims by Rev. Craig Smalley during a service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Ala., where she attended. … Read more
Authorities say the “person of interest” held in the Brown University shooting is being released. “We want to inform the community that that individual will soon be released by the Providence Police,” said Mayor Brett Smiley in a surprise announcement made at 11 pm on Sunday night, December 14. Smiley urged anyone with information about … Read more
The person of interest held in connection with the shooting at Brown University, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery, according to his LinkedIn profile. Erickson, a 24-year-old Wisconsin native, served as an infantry soldier in the United States Army, where … Read more
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Hundreds of police officers have been swarming the Brown University campus along with nearby neighborhoods and searching for video in the hunt for a shooter who opened fire in a classroom, killing two people and wounding nine others. The search was renewed late into the night, well after the shooting broke … Read more
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million as part of a deal with the Trump administration that restores previously frozen federal funding and ends a months-long investigation into government allegations of “unlawful discrimination,” including “race-based admissions” and a “hostile” environment for Jewish students, the Justice Department announced Friday. The agreement requires Northwestern to comply … Read more