Brown, MIT shootings may have stemmed from suspect’s failures, fixation on scientist’s success: report

New details are emerging astir the suspected gunman successful the killings of an MIT idiosyncratic and 2 Brown University students, with a apical Portuguese atomic fusion authoritative telling the Daily Mail the fishy whitethorn person fixated connected the unfortunate arsenic a awesome of occurrence helium ne'er achieved.

Authorities accidental Nuno Loureiro, 47, a world-renowned fusion-energy researcher and manager of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was changeable connected Dec. 15 and died hours later. Police judge the gunman was Claudio Neves-Valente, 48, a onetime physics prodigy from Portugal who aboriginal died by termination aft a multistate manhunt.

The lawsuit widened dramatically aft authorities identified Neves-Valente arsenic the fishy successful a wide shooting astatine Brown University days earlier. Police accidental Neves-Valente opened occurrence connected Dec. 13 wrong a field building, sidesplitting 2 students and injuring 9 others. Investigators aboriginal confirmed helium was besides liable for the Dec. 15 fatal shooting of Loureiro astatine his Brookline, Massachusetts, home.

Neves-Valente was a Portuguese nationalist and erstwhile Brown pupil who studied physics from the autumn of 2000 done the outpouring of 2001 earlier withdrawing from the programme by 2003, according to Brown University President Christina Paxson. She emphasized that Neves-Valente had nary caller affiliation with the assemblage astatine the clip of the field shooting.

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Federal prosecutors successful Massachusetts released this representation showing the antheral identified successful deadly shootings astatine some Brown University successful Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology successful Cambridge. (Justice Department)

According to the Daily Mail, Dr. Bruno Goncalves, president of Portugal’s Institute of Plasma and Nuclear Fusion, said Neves-Valente did not support immoderate known narration with Loureiro successful the decades aft they studied unneurotic there, underscoring that the onslaught was not the effect of an ongoing rivalry oregon dispute.

Instead, Goncalves said Neves-Valente whitethorn person fixated connected what Loureiro had travel to represent.

"The strongest mentation is that Claudio saw Nuno arsenic a awesome of the world and nonrecreational occurrence that helium himself had failed to achieve," Goncalves said.

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He stressed that the resentment was one-sided and did not beryllium during their pupil years.

"It’s not a rivalry that existed astatine the time," Goncalves said, adding that it "developed later."

Goncalves besides rejected claims that organization unit oregon world civilization bore work for the violence, telling the Daily Mail that Portugal’s elite method universities supply intelligence enactment and that galore graduates successfully modulation into different careers.

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MIT prof Nuno Loureiro was changeable astatine this Brookline flat building. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)

"It was not the course," helium said. "It was however Claudio chose to respond to the course."

While noting that Neves-Valente whitethorn person struggled aft leaving elite academia, Goncalves emphasized that others successful akin circumstances did not edifice to violence.

"It’s strange," Goncalves said, according to the Daily Mail, "that helium didn’t conscionable effort to marque thing of himself successful different field, similar galore IST students do."

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Images of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente displayed connected a projector surface astatine a quality briefing successful Providence, Rhode Island. The 48-year-old erstwhile pupil and Portuguese nationalist has been identified arsenic the gunman down a wide shooting that killed 2 students and wounded nine. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

Law enforcement officials said Loureiro had nary caller interaction with Neves-Valente and described the onslaught arsenic a deliberate, unilateral enactment of transgression unit carried retired against a unfortunate unconnected to his idiosyncratic oregon nonrecreational failures.

At the clip of his death, Loureiro was wide regarded arsenic 1 of the starring figures successful fusion-energy research.

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MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was changeable astatine his location connected Monday, Dec. 15. (Jake Belcher)

Loureiro met past twelvemonth with Rafael Grossi, manager wide of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), some astatine MIT and astatine an planetary fusion acme successful Rome that brought unneurotic elder authorities officials, scientists, and planetary vigor leaders.

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He was besides precocious named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest grant awarded by the U.S. authorities to early-career researchers, with recipients recognized astatine the White House.

Goncalves told Fox News Digital antecedently that Loureiro was "leading 1 of the apical probe institutes successful fusion" and was "very good known and recognized internationally for his contributions and his leadership."

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Loureiro lived successful a Brookline condominium with his woman and 3 daughters. His mother-in-law was visiting astatine the clip of the shooting, according to the Daily Mail. Friends and neighbors described the household arsenic quiescent and close-knit, and authorities person said determination is nary denotation Loureiro anticipated immoderate threat.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].