Brown University students shaken as relief, anger collide after suspected shooter's death

Brown University student recounts distressing moments of fatal on-campus shooting Alp Gures, a junior at Brown University, recounts moments during and after the fatal shooting that killed two and injured nine on Saturday, Dec. 13. (Credit: Fox News Digital) Brown University students and the Providence community were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, as the suspected gunman that killed two and injured nine others on campus was found dead in a storage unit on Thursday, Dec. 18. Investigators identified the gunman as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente , a 48-year-old Portuguese national, according to the Providence Police Department. "It felt like a weight lifted off our chest," said Jack DiPrimio, a graduate student and friend of one of the victims. "But then, it dawned on us that it really wasn’t that satisfying." Brown University President Christina Paxson said in a press conference Neves-Valente was a graduate student at the university from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He then took a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew from the university in 2003. DiPrimio said that while he and others were relieved the shooter was dead, he was also enraged. "We wanted to see him alive, so that we could bring him to justice, and so that he could look our community in the [eyes], could look the family in the eyes and grapple with what he did," said DiPrimio. Neves-Valente was also identified as the suspected gunman who killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Nuno Loureiro , 47, in his Brookline home on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Loureiro was a world-renowned physicist, professor of nuclear science and engineering and the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Still, Brown University students remained shaken in the days after the shooting. Investigators collect evidence around the location where Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente was found dead in Salem, N.H., Thursday, December 19, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital) "What I thought would happen was that I would feel relief and that I would feel safe to go out on the streets again. But, instead I felt infuriated," said Alp Gures, a junior at Brown University. "I didn’t know who to blame ... We then realized that it was a former Ph.D. student ... Just the thought of [it] made me really angry." Gures said he was in his apartment during the shooting, only a block away from Barus and Holley, the building where the shooting occurred . He remembers hearing a multitude of sirens pass his building and later, received a call from his roommate who had already left campus for winter break. His roommate notified him of the shooting and he said he didn’t receive an official alert until later. The first emergency alert was sent to students at 4:22 p.m. on Saturday, 17 minutes after the first 911 call was received, according to Brown University's website. "I’m so confused," said Gures. "I thought the [emergency notification system] was trustworthy. Just the fact that it...

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