A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootings

Source Chicago Tribune
Original Load Date Dec. 19, 2025, 8:01 p.m.
Last Updated Dec. 19, 2025, 8:01 p.m.
Original URL https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/investigations-brown-mit-shootings/

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the 48-year- old Portuguese national returned to the camp...