Custodian told security suspicious man was ‘casing’ building weeks before Brown shooting

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Derek Lisi told The Boston Globe that he noticed a man pacing the hallways at the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, looking into classrooms and even at one point ducking behind a bathroom in order to avoid being seen. In total, two were killed and another nine people were injured on Dec. 13. Five victims remain at Rhode Island Hospital in stable condition.

When police shared pictures of the Brown University shooting suspect, Lisi recognized him, saying, "He’d been casing that place for weeks."

Lisi told the outlet that he saw a man matching police's description of the suspect, identified as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, on about 10 occasions dating back to early January.

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