{"id":37973,"date":"2025-12-19T23:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/investigators-seek-motive-for-shootings-of-mit-professor-and-brown-students\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:58","slug":"investigators-seek-motive-for-shootings-of-mit-professor-and-brown-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/investigators-seek-motive-for-shootings-of-mit-professor-and-brown-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators seek motive for shootings of MIT professor and Brown students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire storage facility after five-day manhunt<\/p>\n<p>Investigators turned on Friday to the search for a motive in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/13\/brown-university-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murders of two<\/a> Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the prime suspect was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and formerly very briefly a student at Brown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/18\/suspect-brown-university-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was discovered<\/a> in a New Hampshire storage facility on Thursday night after a five-day manhunt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/19\/brown-university-shooting-mit-professor-motive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire storage facility after five-day manhunt Investigators turned on Friday to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the prime suspect was found dead from an apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:14:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}