Brown-MIT shooting suspect studied with murdered professor in Portugal, authorities say

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The deceased gunman who authorities say murdered Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro previously knew and studied with the victim at a Portuguese university.

The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was a former Brown University student and Portuguese national. Neves Valente is the suspect in both Loureiro’s murder and the Brown University mass shooting from Saturday, in which he allegedly killed two students and injured nine.

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