Brown University shooting plot thickens as authorities reverse course, say deceased shooter DID kill nuclear fusion genius

Brown University students and staff can now rest easy, as the gunman responsible for last week’s mass shooting that killed two has been found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. That’s no thanks to the investigative genius of Kash Patel’s FBI, as the information that led to the discovery came via a tip from a member of the public.

The killer is confirmed to be 49-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, who had studied at Brown around 25 years ago and seems to have been nursing a grudge that his life didn’t turn out how he thought it should.

With Valente now positively identified, authorities have also performed a U-turn and confirmed that they now believe he was also responsible for the execution of 47-year-old Nuno Loureiro. He was also Portuguese and was among the world’s top nuclear researchers, being the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a member of MIT’s departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics.

What was their connection?

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It appears that Loureiro and Valente studied together at the same university in Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico in the late 1990s. However, while Loreiro graduated, Valente appears to have been terminated from a teaching monitor position and removed from the university.

Even so, Valente went on to study at Brown from the autumn of 2000 to spring 2001, where he was studying for a PhD in physics. It’s unclear why Valente wanted to kill Loreiro or whether there was bad blood between the two men

Whatever the case, Valente’s body was discovered with what authorities describe as a self-inflicted gunshot wound, alongside a satchel containing two firearms. In addition, evidence in a nearby car linked him to the crime scene at Brown University.

It seems there’s more to this story than meets the eye. On the face of it, Valente appears to simply be something of a frustrated loser who felt that his life should have amounted to more and decided to take out his anger on his former university, killing two innocent students in the process before moving on to his former colleague.

But who knows, maybe there’s more connecting Valente and Loreiro than them simply studying together two decades ago. We can only wait and see, while mourning the loss of a scientific genius who was helping pave the way for clean fusion power.