In a separate information convention Thurday night time in Massachusetts, federal prosecutors offered extra particulars on the timeline of the suspect’s actions previous to the Brown College capturing and the killing of an MIT professor.
In accordance with Leah Foley, U.S. lawyer for the District of Massachusetts, the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, rented a lodge room in Boston from Nov. 26 to Nov. 30.
On Dec. 1, he rented a grey Nissan Sentra with Florida plates from a automobile rental company in Boston, and that very same day, he drove “to the neighborhood” of Brown College, Foley stated.
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His automobile was “noticed intermittently” between Dec. 1 and Dec. 12 within the space of Brown College, Foley stated. The mass capturing came about on Dec. 13.
Between Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, the suspect returned to Massachusetts, and on Dec. 15, “he murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at Loureiro’s residence in Brookline,” Foley stated.
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He then switched the plates on his rental automobile to an unregistered Maine plate, Foley stated, and drove to the storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, the place he had rented a unit and the place he was discovered useless Thursday.
“Investigators recognized the automobile that he had rented in Boston and drove to Rhode Island,” Foley stated. The automobile was seen outdoors of Brown, and there was safety footage of an individual who resembled him.
“There have been monetary investigations that have been occurring within the background that linked him, not solely to that automobile, however to the accommodations that he had rented,” Foley stated.
Safety footage additionally confirmed the suspect inside a half-mile of Loureiro’s house, in addition to footage displaying him coming into an house constructing “within the location of the professor’s house,” Foley stated.
About an hour later, he was seen coming into the storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, the place he was discovered useless Thursday, wearing the identical garments that he was seen carrying proper after Loureiro’s homicide, Foley stated.
