It's Friday, December the 19th, 2025, and this is Denison Forum's daily article podcast.

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Last Saturday afternoon, a gunman entered the School of Engineering at Brown University and killed two students, wounding nine others.

Two days later, a physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Nuno Gomez-Lorriero was shot multiple times outside his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and later died from his injuries.

Late last night, police announced that the suspect in both shootings had been found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

They identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valenti, age 48, a Portuguese national.

According to Brown University President Christina Paxon,

Valenti was enrolled at the Ivy League School from the autumn of 2000 to the following spring,

studying for a Ph.D. in physics.

He had, quote, no current active affiliation with the university, she said.

Officials said they also believe Valenti killed Professor Lauriero.

Both he and the suspect had studied at the same university in Portugal in the late 1990s, police said.

Initial findings indicate that Valenti died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police were unable to comment on how long he might

have been inside the storage unit. No motive in the shootings has been revealed at this writing.

Frederick Beakner taught at Harvard Divinity School one semester where he met a student who, quote,

said once that what he believed in was faith. And when I asked him faith in what,

his answer was, faith in faith. Beechner responded, I don't mean to disparage him. He was doing

the best he could. But it struck me that having faith in faith was as barren as being in love

with love or having money that you spend only on the accumulation of more money.

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