U.S. authorities have identified the shooter in the Brown University shooting that killed two people and injured nine.
The suspect, 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves-Valente, entered the country through a Diversity Visa program issued to him in 2017.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated that President Trump directed her to suspend all Diversity Visa applications following the incident.
Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez confirmed that Neves-Valente initially entered the United States on a student visa in 2000 and became a permanent resident in 2017, before being found dead this week from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem said on social media.
Trump has long opposed the Diversity Visa lottery, which annually issues up to 50,000 green cards through a national lottery for citizens of countries with low representation in the United States. Nearly 20 million applicants submitted entries for the 2025 program, with over 131,000 selected when including spouses.
Portuguese nationals won only 38 slots in the program.
The administration previously implemented sweeping immigration restrictions after an Afghan man was identified as the shooter in a November attack on National Guard members.
In 2017, Trump sought to end the program following an ISIS terrorist who entered under the DV1 program and killed eight people in a New York City truck ramming incident.
At Trump’s direction, USCIS has immediately paused the DV1 program.
