Crime scene tape exterior of the Barus and Holley constructing on the campus of Brown College on Dec. 16.
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The suspect within the capturing Saturday at Brown College that killed two college students and injured 9 was discovered lifeless in a New Hampshire storage unit, authorities introduced Thursday evening.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was found at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, stated Windfall Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez at a information convention.
Neves Valente was a former Brown scholar and Portuguese nationwide, who was final recognized to stay in Miami, Perez stated. Authorities tracked the person by video surveillance that led to a automotive rental company in Massachusetts.
Brown College President Christina Paxson stated Neves Valente attended the Ivy League faculty from 2000 to 2001 and studied physics.
The arrest got here as a aid to many on campus and within the surrounding Windfall group, who endured 5 days of worry and uncertainty because the investigation foundered with few leads.
“Tonight our Windfall neighbors can lastly breathe a bit simpler,” stated Windfall Mayor Brett Smiley.
The day of the capturing, authorities launched the primary photos from space surveillance cameras of a person who they believed to be related to the capturing, providing a $50,000 reward for data resulting in his identification and arrest.
Regulation enforcement officers on Sunday initially centered on a unique “particular person of curiosity” however cleared and launched him later that evening. Investigators continued to scour the realm for clues, forming traces and sweeping apart freshly fallen snow with their ft as they searched neighboring streets.
Further video photos and maps have been launched this week, exhibiting the suspect strolling the realm close to campus hours earlier than and after the capturing.
The capturing came about about 4 p.m. Saturday at Barus and Holley Corridor in a stadium-style seating classroom the place college students have been gathered for an economics class overview session forward of ultimate exams. The constructing homes the college’s homes the varsity of engineering and physics division. Paxson stated Neves Valente would have spend time within the constructing throughout his time as a scholar.
College students described listening to gunshots simply earlier than seeing a person in a face masks burst into the classroom and begin firing. Ref Bari, a physics graduate scholar, stated he ran out of the constructing when the capturing began and hid in a toilet for hours with different fleeing strangers.
“There have been rumors that the shooter was out on the road, like ft from us, and it was so terrifying,” Bari advised NPR’s “Right here and Now.” He known as 911 from the toilet, and stated he advised police “there have been gunshots behind me,” solely to be advised by police they did not know what number of energetic shooters there have been, and he ought to keep sheltered.
“It is simply this sense of helplessness,” Bari stated. “There isn’t any Superman who’s going to avoid wasting the day. It is you and your pals.”
Brown college students Ella Cook dinner, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, have been killed.
Cook dinner, from Birmingham, Ala., was vice chairman of Brown’s faculty Republican membership, and in line with her obituary, had “a coronary heart as large because the solar” and “evinced a type of ‘silent management,’ to cite her brother Hooker.” She was recognized for “her persistent braveness in following each coronary heart and conscience” in addition to her big selection of pursuits. She liked spending time with mates, babysitting, educating Bible lessons and pursuing her research at Brown, the place she was majoring in French and Arithmetic-Economics.
Cook dinner was remembered on the Cathedral Church of the Introduction, as “an unimaginable, grounded, trustworthy, vibrant gentle,” each at house and at Brown.
Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth posted on X that Cook dinner “represented the perfect of Alabama. A vibrant future was ended a lot too quickly.”
Umurzokov, a naturalized citizen, immigrated to the US in 2011 from Uzbekistan. The U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan stated it was mourning “the lack of a “vibrant future.”
Freshman Shane Toomey stated Umurzokov needed to be a neurosurgeon, and liked studying a lot he was at that economics overview session simply hoping to be taught one thing new – he wasn’t even enrolled within the class.
“He might maintain a dialog with anyone about absolutely anything after which pivot to one thing completely completely different,” Toomey advised Ocean State Media. Umurzokov, he added, appeared “to be mates with each single particular person you stroll by on a campus of 1000’s of individuals.”
On Sunday, Brown College canceled all remaining in-person exams for the autumn semester to “focus our efforts on offering care and assist to the members of our group” and to “grapple with the sorrow, worry and anxiousness that’s impacting all of us proper now.”
