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Brookline Police Report Details MIT Professor’s Killing, Ties Case to Brown Shooter

The newly released documents outline the daughter's account with evidence tying the killing to Brown suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.

Overview

  • Brookline police released a 96-page report that reconstructs the Dec. 15 shooting of MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro at his home and the subsequent investigation.
  • The report says Loureiro’s 12-year-old daughter encountered a man holding a package at the door before hearing three to four gunshots as her father went to answer it.
  • Detectives recovered six spent shell casings in the foyer and documented ballistic damage, noting the absence of exterior cameras at the building and on the street.
  • Surveillance described the suspect vehicle circling neighborhood streets before the attack and captured movements earlier that day near Boston University, as well as the getaway route afterward.
  • Investigators identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, linked to the Brown University mass shooting, who died by suicide on Dec. 18 in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit, while no official motive has been announced.