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They caught the monster not because Big Media was on the case or elite administrators suddenly grew a spine, but because an ordinary man — described in official documents as a custodian who crossed paths with the suspect — had the courage to come forward with what he saw. That tip, offered to investigators and later corroborated by surveillance and financial leads, broke the case wide open when officials had been floundering.
Authorities have identified the suspect as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a former Brown physics student who was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage unit after a weeklong manhunt. Law enforcement now believes he killed two students at Brown and later gunned down an MIT professor, and investigators pieced together his movements through rental car records, hotel stays and security footage.
Let’s be blunt: this was a failure of campus security and a reminder that academic elites prefer woke optics to real safety. Officials admitted investigators struggled because the building had limited surveillance, forcing detectives to stitch together footage from neighborhood cameras while students and residents lived in fear.
The connection to MIT deepens the alarm: the slain professor, Nuno Loureiro, had crossed paths with the suspect years earlier while both studied physics in Portugal, suggesting this may have been a targeted, premeditated attack rather than random campus chaos. Law enforcement says video placed the suspect near the professor’s residence the night of that murder, and the timeline shows chilling mobility from Providence to Brookline and then to New Hampshire.
In Washington, the administration responded the only way it knows how — by pausing the Diversity Visa lottery after officials said the suspect entered the country through that program in 2017. Stop pretending this isn’t a moment to demand real vetting and accountability: when tragic crimes are traced to visa programs or porous systems, conservatives who have warned about lax policies are proven right and the American people deserve answers and action.
Americans should also salute the citizen who refused to look the other way and forced authorities to follow the lead others ignored; he deserves every bit of gratitude and the reward being discussed. But gratitude is not a substitute for accountability — universities must secure classrooms, law enforcement needs better resources to respond quickly, and our immigration system needs common-sense reforms so grieving families aren’t told this was unforeseeable.
