🇺🇸⚡️- Boston 25 now reports that the suspect was not a citizen, but a "legal permanent resident" of the United States.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "On Dec. 18, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of five male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions - three in the first vessel and two in the second vessel. No U.S. military forces were harmed. #OpSouthernSpear" - U.S. Southern Command.

🇺🇸⚡️- Press conference starting now.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence has taken the podium.

🇺🇸⚡️- "I want to thank the people of Providence for stepping up during these extraordinarily difficult times." - Mayor Smiley, Mayor of Providence.

🇺🇸⚡️- Oscar Perez, Chief of the Providence Police, has taken the podium.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Immediately after the shooting, Providence detectives went to work." - Colonel Perez, Chief of the Providence Police.

🇺🇸⚡️- "A person of interest has been identified. Every federal agency you can think of was reaching out to our department. Images were shared to our department." - Colonel Perez, Chief of the Providence Police.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We looked up financial records, video footage[s], and in this specific instance, we found a video that provided a denoscription of a vehicle. This was corroborated by a tip we received." - Colonel Perez, Chief of the Providence Police.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- BREAKING: "Claudio Neves-Valente has been identified as the suspect, a 48 year old former student of Brown University and Portuguese national." - Colonel Perez, Chief of the Providence Police.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- "He was found dead with a satchel, two firearms, and evidence in the car that matches exactly what we see at the scene here in Providence." - Peter Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- The Providence Police Department has released a photo of security camera footage of the suspect; presumably in a car rental location in Massachusetts.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- "The FBI and our partners across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire will continue to search for answers." - Special Agent-in-Charge for the FBI, Ted Docks.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- "During his [Valente's] time at Brown University, he was enrolled in a PhD physics program. He took a leave of absence in 2001 and withdrew fully in July 2003." - Christina Paxson, President of Brown University.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- The Providence Police Department has dismissed any potentially "antisemitic" motives, and stated that Valente "acted alone."

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- The FBI has confirmed that Claudio Neves-Valente and Nuno Loureiro attended the same university in Lisbon, Portugal in the 2000s.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- Peter Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island, says that no motive has been identified.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- Hilariously, a homeless man identified the suspect and attempted to chase him; according to Providence Chief of Police Perez.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- Rhode Island Attorney General Neronha says the homeless man told investigators the shooter "barked at him" as the he attempted to follow.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- According to investigators, the homeless man wrote down the license plates of the shooter to supplement the investigation, though the suspect changed plates shortly after leaving.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- The FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Ted Docks says the homeless man may be ennoscriptd to some of the FBI reward money for helping investigators identify the suspect.