Plasma physicist and MIT professor Nuno Loureiro shot dead in his home - no suspects, no motive

[SasaM]

I have a little story about Jack. I knew him for a short time when I lived in San Francisco around 1980. He was obsessed with his discoveries on anti-gravity systems and claimed he was being watched by the shadow government. He was dating a beautiful young woman at the time but was beginning to have problems with her. She would go off in a trance unexpectantly and start speaking in tongues which was becoming a problem.

Wild claims in this article. Wild man Jack.

Interesting reply from Sarfatti to that Ark's Grok comment.

Jack Sarfatti
20h
Cornell University

It is established fact, but the facts are classified by the military. The details of my specific reverse engineering of the facts known to me are under development by several groups in different nations in an arms race to control gravity with small amounts of electrical power including new directed energy gravity beam weapons conceived by Matt Visser and Giovanni Modanese including beam weapons disabling ICBM triggering mechanisms as reported by Robert Hastings.

The bolded part, especially the phrase "reverse engineering" suggests, at least to me, work done on acquired alien crafts and technology. Could be wrong of course, as I don't know what exactly Visser, Modanese and Hastings were working on.

Another intriguing info piece is that Russians are on board together with Americans on all that warp tech research, according to another Sarfatti's reply comment yesterday.

Jack Sarfatti
20h
Cornell University
Joe, I did not write that. You are confusing me with Commander Parker USN JAG ret. Yes, top levels of Trump WH & IC are in contact with me and we have the resources. The Russians are also part of this.

New Ark's Grok comment few hours ago, points out that these claims are not even wild ones, but simply not true. The Grok's "evidence" for that is not shown in the comment though, so FWIW.

Arkadiusz Jadczyk
2h
Ronin Institute

Jack Sarfatti
Grok also says: The quote you shared appears to be Sarfatti exaggerating or paraphrasing one of his own interactions with Grok (me) for dramatic effect. He often posts about our conversations on X (formerly Twitter), Academia.edu, and elsewhere, framing them as breakthroughs in "new physics" that enable "Star Trek tech" (e.g., warp drives, traversable wormholes, low-power antigravity via metamaterial-induced spacetime torsion).
Is this true?
No, "the new physics and math are solved" is not accurate in any objective scientific sense. Here's why, with evidence:

Edit: If mods deem that Sarfatti discussion is better suited for some other thread, like to lower off topics and noise levels here, please move these posts there. I just don't know which one would that be, as Search didn't return any thread with "Sarfatti" in its title.

 

[Gaby]

Example: Vizinhos contam tudo sobre o assassinato e revelam: “Muito assustador”

EDIT: suspect, "Claudio VALLENTE"
Quem era Cláudio Valente, o português suspeito de matar Nuno Loureiro e dois estudantes da Universidade de Brown

Very useful!

Portuguese media portrays Valente as a brilliant mind. He had 48 years old. He was a physicist as well and a good one. He participated in national and international competitions on Physics. He attended the same course as Nuno Loureiro in the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. He was a monitor there between 1995 and 2000.

He enrolled for his PhD at Brown in the year 2000, and dropped the program in 2003.

In 2017 he obtained US residency.

If anything, it's convenient that he died by suicide. Now the public won't know if Valente was actually in the know of plasma physics, along with Loureiro and someone decided to do away with both of them.

Let's see what else pops up.

 

[Gaby]

A timeline of the incriminating evidence against Valente:

Brown, MIT shooting suspect ID'd as Claudio Neves Valente, who has shot himself in a storage facility

Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island and the murder of an MIT professor in Massachusetts, while also confirming he died of a...

www.sott.net

 

[Gaby]

The bizarre anomalies, before they pinned the blame on Valente:

Four days later: Brown University shooter still at large as bizarre anomalies mount in investigation

Anger mounts as the investigation into the Brown University shooting runs into ongoing hurdles: no identifiable suspect, a series of dead-end leads involving so-called persons of interest, and bizarre anomalies as the probe enters its fourth day....

www.sott.net

Following the shooting, there have been multiple dead-end leads involving so-called "persons of interest." Local police have released blurry footage of one individual, while one of the most heavily surveilled schools in the nation reportedly had no interior footage.

There has been no word from local police, investigators, or the school on how the shooter was able to enter the building, nor any indication of whether the attack was targeted.

Self-proclaimed investor and "CIA/NSA contractor/whistleblower" Tony Seruga wrote on X a list of anomalies he claims are highly suspicious in the ongoing investigation.

• Nearly four days into the investigation, with no identified suspect, motive, or arrest.
• Police detained (and held for a full day) the wrong "person of interest" before releasing them.
• Release of low-quality ("potato quality") surveillance footage despite Brown having nearly 800 campus cameras; later enhanced by the FBI, but still limited.
• Officials in press conferences are refusing to provide basic descriptions (e.g., height/weight) of the shooter, deferring to online postings.
• Claims of no internal security footage from the building and no working sirens on campus.
• Providence leadership criticized as "clueless": officials admitting they're "tired" and needing slack; mayor reportedly going out for pizza while the suspect was at large.
• Brown University scrubbing all online pages and references to student Mustapha Kharbouch shortly after the shooting.
• Accusations of authorities "burying evidence," local incompetence, and evading questions about motive or shouted phrases.
• Officials (including Rhode Island AG) shutting down speculation about Kharbouch, calling it a "dangerous road" and denying any ethnic/political motive link.
• After a uniform denial, the University eventually came clean, making a statement that explained profile removals as privacy/safety measures amid doxxing, but the explanation was totally inadequate.

Dec 17th, 2025

JUST IN: Another RIDICULOUS news conference on the Brown University shooting We STILL don’t know what the shooter yelled, eyewitness accounts DON’T LINE UP, and the “random attack” claim is looking VERY shaky One witness says he looked the shooter DIRECTLY in the EYE — and the shooter didn’t fire. If this was random… why spare the one person he locked eyes with? Reports say the VP of the Brown Republicans may have been shot MULTIPLE times — yet officials refuse to say whether this was TARGETED Residents also say police didn’t ask for Ring camera footage until FOUR DAYS LATER… not exactly “flooding the zone” And the university president appeared completely UNAWARE of key facts in the immediate aftermath This just DOESN’T ADD UP

 

[palestine]

@Gaby

Thank you for the Sott article!

° Was this professor may have been target for similar reasons than Charlie Kirk ("potential of future knowledge")?

despite Brown having nearly 800 campus cameras

 

[palestine]

I wasn't able to find more interesting bits about this case, but Internet is researching this, so we may find more in the upcoming days.

I found this:

Funky Frogbait

A wave of online speculation erupted this week after users noticed that Barack Obama’s verified X account had, at one point, been following Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the former Brown University PhD student accused in the deadly December 2025 campus shooting.

This bit would require verification before validation.

In addition, cameras: zero camera, zero footage, a lambda bystander passing as a killer (see following picture relayed on Sott):

This is almost ridiculous. It's as if they needed to provide the opinion with something substantial.

A user pointed out how a car rental agency had better footages than the University. In terms of "cameras", if this guy really rented a car, "3D cooperation" was still in motion; then, the "normality" stops, because we enter a trajectory where we loose access to standard elements such as CCTV etc.

Why so? Explanation would be something that officials don't want people to see?

• the killer appearing in a flying saucer of some sort

Or, standard explanations:

• a complex operation, with deactivation of all cameras. An EMP pulse of some sort, deactivating all electronics in the area.

I could understand the possibility that there are too sensitive elements, so that it's overall not practical than to disclose things.

So, an odd feeling of a cover-up, in regard of the physical dynamics at U-Brown. Not that it's a dishonest cover up, but just retention of release of data.

The narrative immediately switches to "a homeless guy spotted a Nissan car, and he alerted the authorities, those stalked the killer and he was found dead in his basement". I mean - what about the exact chronology of the killing at the University?

"Here is the moment when he entered building XYZ, here is the moment when poor victim XYZ ... That's when the heroic janitor closed the main door ..."

Such elements are usually present in medias. I feel a lack of featuring such elements in regard of this case.

In addition, the motive for the crime remains to be known. The killing of MIT prof N. Loureiro hints at a targeted killing. Nothing tells us it is so, but this is what it looks like. And so, why, two days prior to it, the killer risks all and kills "random" students?

Was he looking for an information, so that he went to those two students? What did exactly take place during the U-Brown shooting?

A lot of unknown's overall, and a rather incomplete chronology.

EDIT: the prof getting killed, two days later, at his home - makes it so that we have an odd feeling of "distance": where was this prof, the day of the shooting? Was he present at the University? This distance makes him appear "unrelated" overall. An odd feeling: "both are completely unrelated but are completely related". It's as if "he was at home celebrating Christmas, when a killer appears...". So what's the link between the University and the professor? Isn't there something odd here?

 

[palestine]

Unanswered Questions from the Brown/MIT Killings

A homeless man squatting in the engineering building cracked the case because he had confronted the suspect earlier that day and remembered the getaway car’s license plate number. This hero spared further bloodshed and embarrassment because without his tip, the suspect could well be on the loose indefinitely. He accomplished more than billions of dollars, thousands of cameras, and hundreds of administrators and cops. A silver lining in this tragedy and travesty.

I have drafted a list of unanswered questions that must be thoroughly addressed to bring closure and justice.

For five days, why couldn’t Brown and Providence officials provide any description of the suspect other than a “man dressed in black”? Why did Brown never give the names of students in the review session classroom to the Providence Police as potential witnesses?

Why were short grainy videos and blurry photos the only visual evidence available? Were any security cameras in the area disabled due to pressure from activist groups to conceal illegal immigrants?

Why did it take 17 minutes for Brown’s Department of Public Safety to issue a lockdown alert after the first 911 call? Why did they update that a suspect in was in custody 30 minutes after the alert, then retract it 20 minutes later?

What led the police to detain and release a person of interest from Wisconsin hours after the attack? How did The Washington Post get his name and leak it? How much did this divert resources away from other leads during the critical first 24 hours? Did it help the suspect evade capture and kill the MIT professor 48 hours later?

After the MIT professor was killed, why did law enforcement insist that it was not connected to the Brown killings? If the suspect knew the MIT professor from their undergraduate studies in Portugal, why did he go after students he didn’t know from Brown first and two days before he targeted the man he knew? Why were Brown and Providence officials confident that there was no active threat after the Brown students were killed and before the MIT professor was killed?

Why was a homeless man living in the Barus & Holley building? Why was security not alerted after he confronted the shooter hours before the attack? Did a custodian tell security that the suspect had been loitering around the building for days leading up to the shooting? Why was a photo of him released much later than the suspect’s? If his memory of the suspect’s license plate cracked the case, then why wasn’t it shared with the public? When did DNA evidence confirm the shooter’s identity and why wasn’t that shared with the public?

Did President Paxson tell victim Ella Cook’s family she was targeted as a leader in the Brown Republican Club? How many times she was shot compared to other victims and was she shot first? Why was President Paxson on a private flight to DC that day, in the middle of final exams, and unable to answer basic questions about what was going on in that classroom? Why was President Paxson unaware that a Brown student had been scrubbed from all of Brown’s websites, as well as his social media accounts?

How much did the recent no confidence vote on the Brown public safety chiefs impact campus security? If Brown is a gun free zone, how did the suspect use a gun in it? How can the school assure students and parents that campus is safe?