Reds lefty Andrew Abbott named NL All-Star, replacing Yamamoto. Rays' Caminero joins AL squad

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Reds left-hander Andrew Abbott is an All-Star after all.

Abbott, who's 7-1 with a 2.15 ERA in 15 starts, was named Tuesday as an NL replacement for the Los Angeles Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who’s ineligible to pitch since he’s scheduled to start Sunday.

“It was actually wonderful (news),” manager Terry Francona said after the Reds lost 12-2 to the Miami Marlins. “He's very deserving. His teammates were thrilled for him. On a tough night, that was the one really bright shining spot for us.”

Later Tuesday, Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero was named to the AL squad as a replacement for Boston's Alex Bregman.

The 26-year-old Abbott was informed during the first inning of his first career All-Star selection, and he high-fived and hugged teammates who showered him with ice and bubble gum in the dugout.

“I thought I deserved it the first go-around," Abbott said. “But there's a lot of other deserving guys, so I get the process. Just have to wait until your name's called. It's just special. It means the world.”

Shortstop Elly De La Cruz is Cincinnati's other All-Star.

Abbott's ERA would be the fourth best in the majors if he had pitched enough innings to qualify. A pitcher must have at least one inning pitched per games played by his team. The Reds have played 92 games and Abbott has tossed 83 2/3 innings since making his season debut on April 12 after suffering a left shoulder strain in spring training.

Caminero is batting .252 with 21 homers and 57 RBIs this season, his first as an everyday player.

The 22-year-old is the third Rays infielder to be named an All-Star, joining first baseman Jonathan Aranda and second baseman Brandon Lowe.

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FILE - Tampa Bay Rays' Junior Caminero hits a home run, leading Taylor Walls and Brandon Lowe to score, during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Sunday, June 15, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, File)

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Andrew Abbott, left, and shortstop Elly De La Cruz celebrate in the dugout as it was announced that Abbott will join De La Cruz as the Reds' representatives for the 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Cincinnati, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Andrew Abbott, left, and shortstop Elly De La Cruz celebrate in the dugout as it was announced that Abbott will join De La Cruz as the Reds' representatives for the 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Cincinnati, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Andrew Abbott throws in the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Several days of investigations into the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor ended when authorities discovered evidence they say indicates the killings were committed by the same man, who was then found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The attacker at Brown killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on Saturday. Some 50 miles (80 kilometers) away MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed Monday night in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Police said the body of the shooter they believe is responsible for both crimes was found Thursday.

Here is what to know about the attacks and investigations:

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a six-day search that spanned several New England states.

Brown University President Christina Paxson said Neves Valente was enrolled at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He was admitted to the graduate school to study physics beginning in September 2000.

“He has no current affiliation with the university,” she said.

Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a student visa. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status in September 2017. His last known residence was in Miami.

Portugal’s top diplomat said Friday that the government was taken aback that a Portuguese man is the main suspect in the mass shooting at Brown and the killing of an MIT professor who was of the same nationality. Police said they were contacted by U.S. authorities Thursday once Neves Valente was named.

Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said Portugal has provided “very broad cooperation” in the case. He said in comments to the national news agency Lusa that “the investigation is far from over.”

Loureiro, 47, who was married, joined MIT in 2016 and was named last year to lead the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he worked to advance clean energy technology and other research. The center, one of MIT’s largest labs, had more than 250 people working across seven buildings when he took the helm. He was a professor of physics and nuclear science and engineering.

Valente and Loureiro attended the same academic program at a university in Portugal between 1995 and 2000, Foley said. Loureiro graduated from the physics program at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal’s premier engineering school, in 2000, according to his MIT faculty page.

The same year, Neves Valente was let go from a position at the Lisbon university, according to an archive of a termination notice from the school’s then-president in February 2000.

Authorities released several security videos of a suspect for the Brown attack but their face is masked or turned away in all of them.

Police say a witness then gave investigators a key tip: he saw someone who looked like the person of interest with a Nissan sedan displaying Florida plates. That enabled Providence police officers to tap into a network of more than 70 street cameras operated around the city by surveillance company Flock Safety. Those cameras track license plates and other vehicle details.

After leaving Rhode Island for Massachusetts, Providence officials said the suspect stuck a Maine license plate over the rental car’s plate to help conceal his identity.

Video footage showed Neves Valente entering an apartment building near Loureiro’s. About an hour later, he was seen entering the New Hampshire storage facility where he was later found dead, Foley said.

The two students who were killed and the nine others wounded were studying for a final in a first-floor classroom in an older section of the engineering building when the shooter walked in and opened fire.

Those killed were 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook and 18-year-old freshman MukhammadAziz Umurzokov. Cook, whose funeral is Monday, was active in her Alabama church and served as vice president of the Brown College Republicans. Umurzokov’s family immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan when he was a child, and he aspired to be a doctor.

As for the wounded, six were in stable condition Thursday, officials said. The other three were discharged.

Neves Valiente gained permanent residency status through a green card lottery program, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X.

She said President Donald Trump ordered her to pause the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services program.

The diversity visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the United States, many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to invite legal challenges.

This combo image made with photos provided by the FBI and the Providence, Rhode Island, Police Department shows a person of interest in the shooting that occurred at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (FBI/Providence Police Department via AP)

A memorial of flowers and signs lay outside the Barus and Holley engineering building at Brown University, on Hope Street in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt OBrien)

A Brown University student leaves campus, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, after all classes, exams and papers were canceled for the rest of the Fall 2025 semester following the school shooting, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)