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• The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting was found dead last night after taking his own life. Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national, was found at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
• In an affidavit, investigators said a campus custodian’s observations and an anonymous Reddit post helped narrow the search for the suspect. He was “sophisticated in hiding his tracks” and is believed to have used an untraceable phone and avoided credit cards in his own name, said prosecutors.
• Neves Valente was also responsible for the killing of an MIT professor days after the Brown University attack, prosecutors said. He attended the same academic program as the professor in Portugal, between 1995 and 2000.
• The US will pause its diversity visa lottery program, said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, adding that Neves Valente entered the country via the program in 2017 and was granted a green card.
Portuguese police are cooperating with US authorities on investigation, department says
The Polícia Judiciária, Portugal’s judicial police department, is helping US authorities in the investigations of Saturday’s deadly Brown University shooting and Monday’s killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro, the agency said in an online release.
The department was contacted yesterday, it said, and is “providing collaboration and support” since the suspect, 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente, became a subject of interest to law enforcement.
Site of Brown shooting had only 2 exterior surveillance cameras, affidavit says
Brown University’s Barus and Holley building, where Saturday’s shooting took place, is equipped with only two exterior cameras but has multiple entrances and exits, according to the suspect’s criminal affidavit.
In addition, interior cameras do not cover the room where the shooting took place or the surrounding hallways, the affidavit says.
Brown’s system of surveillance cameras has come under scrutiny this past week, including from President Donald Trump, after the shooting suspect was able to flee the scene. The most helpful surveillance videos of the suspect came not from the university but from cameras positioned at nearby homes.
Brown University has an “expansive network of security cameras,” with more than 1,200 cameras around its campus, a university spokesman has said. But the shooting took place at the edge of campus in an older part of the Barus and Holley building that has “fewer, if any” cameras, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said Tuesday.
Read more: Here’s a deeper look at Brown’s surveillance camera system, why its cameras failed to capture the attack or suspect, and the concerns about privacy and academic freedom that are the biggest resistance to their growing use.
What to know about the diversity visa program targeted after the Brown shooting
The State Department runs the diversity visa program, which is designed for individuals in countries that are determined by a formula to have a low enough level of immigration to the US.
Those who arrive to the US under the program are also eligible for green cards.
The issuance of those green cards is handled by the Department of Homeland Security.
As a result, the bulk of the program falls under the State Department, which would presumably be charged with pausing the program.
It’s unclear what direction Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could provide, aside from pausing the issuance of green cards for those in the program.
CNN reached out to DHS and the State Department for comment.
