Authorities have identified the suspect in Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University, which left two students dead and nine injured during a finals week review session, as the same man believed to have carried out the murder of a renowned nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology days later.
His name is Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, according to Providence police.
Neves-Valente, 48, was a Portuguese national and studied at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 to study physics, according to Brown President Christina Paxson. But he went on a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew in 2003.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/claudio-manuel-neves-valente-identified-brown-university-shooting-suspect-found-deadAs usual, liberals call for more gun control laws after mass shootings, but criminals will always find ways to obtain weapons illegally. Restricting gun ownership for law-abiding citizens won't reduce gun violence.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr lamented that he was again speaking about gun violence before a game in Portland seven years after he addressed the horrific mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
It's just a reminder to me that these shootings continue to happen and there is something we can do about them," Kerr said. "The loss that all of the people involved last night, the loss that they're feeling, it's exactly the same loss as all the Parkland families, and every other mass shooting. Nobody asked me about it today. I didn't expect anybody to ask me. ... It's human nature just to think This is so horrible. Let's just not even think about it.' But, we have to think about it."
Kerr, whose father, Malcom Kerr, was killed in Beirut in 1984, has been an outspoken advocate for gun control laws.
"We know that there are common-sense measures we can take that will save people's lives. And I just want people out there, it doesn't matter if you're Democrat or Republican, or a gun owner or non-gun owner, I just want people thinking, what if it were my child, my brother or sister, would you be willing to stand up to your representatives and say, You know what? Enough.'"
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