During Nuno Loureiro and Cláudio Valente’s time at the Instituto Superior Técnico, the Portuguese authorities did not find sufficient reasons for animosity to justify a feeling of hatred towards the murderer.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) returned the investigation into the causes of the murders, which killed the Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro and two students at Brown University, to the FBI, having concluded, from the contacts it established with witnesses in Portugal, that during the years in which Nuno Loureiro coincided at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) with the perpetrator of the crimes – Cláudio Valente – there were not enough reasons for animosity to justify a feeling of hatred towards the murderer that led to the murder. committing the crimes that occurred this month, CNN Portugal found.
Thus, there is a conviction in the investigation that the causes of the homicides lie in the United States, where in recent years Cláudio Valente has attributed the failures of his professional life in that country to the intervention of . This investigation is now the responsibility of the North American authorities.
After several days of manhunting between Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other New England states, authorities ended up linking the attack at Brown University, where two people died and nine others were injured, to the murder of Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro, who ran a center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The person responsible for the attacks would eventually be identified as Cláudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese man who completed a five-year degree in Technological Physics Engineering at IST between 1995 and 2000, attending the same years as Nuno Loureiro, of whom he was a colleague.
Cláudio Valente went, in 2000, to the United States, where he entered Brown University to attend a degree at that same college, but ended up dropping out about a year later, leaving one in the college’s internal network.
After that he returned to Portugal, where he worked in the information technology area at PT. He ended up returning to the United States in 2017, and it is not known exactly what he did since then.
Cláudio Valente’s last address was registered in Miami, Florida, on the opposite end of the east coast of the United States. It was from there that he left for Boston and Providence, where he committed the two crimes in the space of two days.
Cláudio Valente’s body would eventually be found in a garage that he had rented a month earlier in Salem, in the state of New Hampshire, also New England.
