Brown University shooter Claudio Neves-Valente unleashed his bloody hell in a classroom he previously used as a student — but did not appear to have been targeting a specific class, school officials said.
The 48-year-old madman opened fire in Room 166 in the Barus & Holley school building on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus around 4 p.m. on Dec. 13 — killing two students and injuring nine others.
That classroom was the regular meeting place for Critical Review of Physics 0030, a basic course for undergraduates, which convened on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, throughout the semester, according to the Ivy.
One viral social media post suggested Neves-Valente was trying to shoot those taking a physics final scheduled for the space — a move that allegedly failed because of a purported last-minute change.
Reps for Brown denied the claim, saying there was no schedule change and that the final for the Critical Review of Physics 0030 had been scheduled for a different room for more than a month.
“Similarly, there was no location change for the economics study session that met in the classroom where the shooting occurred. It had never been scheduled for any other location,” Brian Clark, vice president for News and Strategic Campus Communications told The Post.
“We think the misunderstanding has arisen because sections of the physics course met for regular weekly class sessions during the semester in the Barus & Holley classroom where the tragic shooting took place,” Clark said.
The building hosts dozens of physics classes, according to online records, and was even used by Neves-Valente when he was briefly a student at Brown in 2001 before taking a leave of absence and dropping out in 2003, according to university officials.
At the time of the shooting, an economics class was meeting for an optional review for the class’s final exam. Included in the eager group of learners were students Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokob and Ella Cook, who were both fatally shot.
Brown University president Christina Paxson previously confirmed that Neves-Valente attended classes in the Barus & Holley building, which was constructed in 1965, but has stayed mum on any potential motive for the heinous killings.
“Brown has no information on the shooter’s intentions or whether [the physics classes] played any role in his actions,” Clark said in the statement.
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