Milt Harris ——Bio and Archives--December 29, 2025

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On Saturday, December 13th, around 4:03 pm, an armed man with his face partially covered walked onto the Brown University Campus. He entered the Barus & Holley Engineering Building and room 166, where final study sessions were underway. Once in the room, he fired 40 rounds, killing two students, 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov. He wounded nine others, seven of them critically.

The murderer was eventually identified as 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, who, after leaving Brown University, drove approximately 75 miles to Brookline, Massachusetts, where he killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in his home two days later.

Police report that a significant lead originated from an anonymous Reddit user who posted online, urging authorities to investigate the suspect's car. After a search that covered multiple states, they located the vehicle and ultimately found the suspect deceased at a storage facility in New Hampshire.

Many questions are swirling around this tragedy. What was his motive? Why was the CCTV camera footage so scarce, and why does there seem to be so much secrecy attached to this case?

Sometimes, the identity of the person asking the questions is just as important as the questions themselves. In this context, retired FBI criminal........

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