🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Brookline PD press conference has begun.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- “Neves-Valente studied at Brown University in Providence, RI, on an F-1 Visa, around 2000-2001. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status.”