Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

Framed photos of mass shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook are seen at a makeshift memorial near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. A gunman remained at large after a weekend mass shooting at elite Brown University left two dead and nine wounded, with US authorities releasing new footage of a masked "person of interest" captured on surveillance cameras. The shooting took place December 13 in a building where exams were underway on the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island when a man with a rifle burst in and opened fire before fleeing. (Photo by Bing Guan / AFP)

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1766113428555Screen Shot 2025-12-19 at 11.02.54 AM_cropped_processed_by_imagy.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Framed photos of mass shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook are seen at a makeshift memorial near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025. Photo by Bing Guan/AFP</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>NEW YORK, United States <strong>(UPDATE) </strong>— The man believed to be behind a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and wounded several others has been found dead, officials announced Thursday.</p><p>Officials also believe the same man, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was a student at Brown, was responsible for the fatal shooting of a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his Boston home.</p><p>Providence police chief Oscar Perez, who identified the suspect as Claudio Neves-Valente, told reporters: &quot;He took his own life tonight.&quot;</p><p>The shooter, who was found at a storage unit in New Hampshire along with two firearms, is believed to have acted alone.</p><p>&quot;Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little bit easier,&quot; Mayor Brett Smiley told reporters.</p><p>There was no immediate indication of a motive in the twin shootings at two of the top universities in the United States.</p><p>&quot;The groundwork that started in the city of Providence... led us to that connection,&quot; Perez said, without offering further details, with an upcoming press conference set in Boston.</p><p>The shooting at Brown—located in Providence, Rhode Island—happened Saturday, when a man with a rifle burst into a campus building at the Ivy League college where students were taking exams.</p><p>The man opened fire, killing two students and then fleeing.</p><p>The two students killed were Ella Cook, vice president of Brown&#x27;s Republican Party association, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, originally from Uzbekistan, who had hoped to become a neurosurgeon.</p><p>One survivor was in critical but stable condition, five were in stable condition, and two had been discharged from hospital, Smiley said earlier in the day.</p><p>For days, investigators appeared to have little to go on, releasing images of a person of interest and an individual who was seen standing near that person in an effort to trace them.</p><p>Officials had given daily media updates at which they have voiced increasing frustration with the so far fruitless manhunt.</p><p>But then the case blew open.</p><p>Authorities initially detained a man in connection with the shooting, but later released him.</p><p>The university has faced questions, including from President Donald Trump, about its security arrangements after it emerged that none of its 1,200 security cameras were linked to the police&#x27;s surveillance system.</p><p>There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.</p><p>Attempts to restrict access to firearms still face political deadlock.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse<br/></strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qhSQ8J6Uo4A?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wjCii71RAC0?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><strong></strong><br/></div>

<p>The man believed to be behind a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and wounded several others has been found dead, officials announced Thursday.</p>

The man believed to be behind a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and wounded several others has been found dead, officials announced Thursday.

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Brown University shooting suspect found dead: police

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