Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man identified by authorities as the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the subsequent killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, has been described as socially awkward, frustrated, and prone to anger by his old friend.
Scott Watson, a physics professor at Syracuse University, stated that he was acquainted with Valente during their time at Brown University as doctoral students in 2000 and 2001.
