
FBI says Brown University shooter targeted symbolic victims to vent personal grievances
Federal investigators say Claudio Neves Valente, a former Brown University student, planned and carried out a December 13 mass shooting targeting symbols of personal failure linked to Brown and other institutions, killing two Brown students and wounding nine before fatally shooting MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro two days later; Valente died of a self-inflicted gunshot in New Hampshire after a multistate manhunt. The FBI describes the acts as symbolic rather than terrorism-driven, rooted in grievance and perceived injustices, while acknowledging mental-health factors played a role but do not fully explain the attacks, and noting separate legal action by Brown students alleging warning signs were missed.











