2025 Brown University shooting
| 2025 Brown University shooting | |
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Memorial outside Brown's Engineering Research Center | |
1 Location of Brown University2 Location of Brookline | |
| Location | 41°49′35″N 71°23′52″W / 41.8265°N 71.3979°W Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. 42°20′53″N 71°07′23″W / 42.3481°N 71.1230°W Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Date | Shooting: December 13, 2025 c. 4:00 p.m. (EST) Murder of Loureiro: December 15, 2025 c. 8:30 p.m. |
Attack type | Mass shooting, spree shooting, school shooting |
| Weapons | Two 9mm Glock handguns |
| Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator and Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| Injured | 9 |
| Perpetrator | Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente |
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On December 13, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. The shooter, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the Barus and Holley Building and killed two students and wounded nine other students who were attending a review session, and then fled the scene before police arrived.
Two days later, on December 15, Nuno Loureiro, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor and former classmate of Valente, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. During a five-day manhunt by the FBI and local police, officials released images and videos of the perpetrator, whose identity was initially unknown to authorities.
Valente was a Portuguese national with United States permanent resident status and a former graduate student at Brown University. On December 18, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot inside a storage unit in New Hampshire. He was found with two guns; officials said the suicide weapon was the gun used in the Brown University shooting. Law enforcement agencies alleged him to be responsible for the shooting.