Brown University shooter found dead

NBC's Rory O'Neill reports on the timeline that lead to the tracking and eventual discovery of the shooter's body

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six forty seven. Thank you. Matt's Friday Morning Mike Elliott
Columbus This Morning News. To jump over and check in
with Rory O'Neil NBC News Radio on the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line. Rory, they've got the suspect
in the Brown University shooting. He was found dead in
New Hampshire in a storage facility, self inflicted gunshot wound.
This is in Salem, New Hampshire. What do we know

(00:20):
about Claudia Nevis Valente.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Originally from Portugal but actually used to study a Brown
University as well, was most recently living in the Miami
area and according to some of the Affi Davids, he
arrived in Boston, was there for a couple of days,
rented a car, went down to Brown University again where
he was a student. He was in engineering, we believe,
and went to the engineering building at the school. But

(00:45):
when he opened fire there, it wasn't an engineering class
that was being held. Instead, it was a study group
in economics, so he may have opened fire on a
group he wasn't intending to target. And then the same guy.
So that was this past Saturday. That on Monday, investigators
say he then went to Brookline, Massachusetts, shot and killed
an MIT nuclear professor there. Now, he and that professor

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were students together back in their native Portugal twenty plus
years ago, so there's a connection there. And then they
find him, as he said, dead in a storage unit
in New Hampshire. The distance from providence of that place
in New Hampshire like two hours.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
So what's the connection between the MIT professor and the
students at Brown. With the students at Brown just random
Maybe he had anger towards the university and just randomly
went into that classroom study group there.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, it looks like this may have been engineering motive.
We're not sure. We don't have the motive. That's what
we're hoping comes together. He was covering his tracks pretty well,
putting different license plates on his rented car. But this
whole case really broke because remember a couple of days ago,
they released a video of that other person of interest, like,
we want to talk to a guy who was in
the neighborhood with the chubby suspect we all saw before. Well,

(02:01):
that guy came forward like an hour after his picture
went out and said, oh yeah, so I was They
had a little bit of a nut confrontation, but they
actually had an exchange in the bathroom of that building
a couple hours before the shooting at Brown because he
said the Reddit guy they're calling him, he told the suspect, hey,
that jacket's a pretty thin jacket. It's awfully cold outside.

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That may not be enough. And then he said he
just looked out of place. So he follows him out
of the building as they walk around, and then sees
and opened the car doors to the car that is
eventually tracked and traced, and that brings us up to
both the shooting at MIT and up to New Hampshire,
all because this guy had this brief interaction in the

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bathroom