A multi-state manhunt ended when authorities found the suspect in the Brown University lecture-hall shooting and the later killing of an MIT professor dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a New Hampshire storage facility. Claudio Neves Valente, a former Brown student, was identified after a tip posted on Reddit helped investigators connect a vehicle to the suspect and led to surveillance-camera evidence. Law enforcement officials and university leaders described how a mixture of community tips, vehicle-tracking camera networks and traditional police work produced the breakthrough. Providence and federal officials credited a local Reddit user whose tip accelerated the search; the episode renewed debates over campus safety, surveillance, open-source sleuthing, and how institutions communicate during active investigations. Why it matters: the case underscores campus threat-response procedures, the role of community-supplied intelligence, and the operational need for universities to coordinate with local and federal law enforcement while managing campus communications and student support.