A rental automotive path, a storage unit, in depth safety footage and a monetary probe reveal how investigators linked alleged Brown University shooter Claudio Neves Valente to the homicide of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro.
At a Thursday information convention, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Leah Foley, detailed how these items of proof enabled police to hyperlink the 2 killings which occurred two days and round 50 miles aside.
Investigators consider Neves Valente rented a automotive in Boston, then drove to Providence , Rhode Island, the place the the automobile was seen close to Brown University, Foley stated. The automotive was noticed intermittently between December 1 and December 12, she added.
“On December 13, Neves Valente entered an auditorium on Brown University’s campus during a study session and began shooting at students, killing Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, and injuring nine others,” she added.
Within 24 hours, Neves Valente returned to Massachusetts, the place he switched his automotive’s plates to an unregistered Maine plate and murdered Loureiro on December 15, Foley stated.
“There was security footage that captured him within a half mile of the professor’s residence in Brookline and there is video footage of him entering an apartment building in the location of the professor’s apartment,” she stated.
Around an hour later, she added, Neves Valente was seen coming into a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, sporting “the same clothes that he had been seen wearing right after the murder.”
The proof, detailed in an unsealed federal criticism, was shared to reassure the general public that regulation enforcement is assured they’ve recognized the particular person accountable for each killings, and that this particular person is now lifeless, Foley stated.