NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Powell scored 24 points, Kel’el Ware had 22 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks, and the Miami Heat snapped a five-game losing streak with a 106-95 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 19 points and Bam Adebayo had 17 rebounds despite battling foul trouble as the Heat won for just the second time in December. They came into the month with 13 wins, tied for their most ever before December, but had gone 1-5 since.
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Miami Heat guard Norman Powell (24) loses the ball against Brooklyn Nets defenders during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. (11) watches after falling as teammate Dru Smith argues with an official during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. (11) passes the ball around Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. (17) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat guard Davion Mitchell (45) goes up for a shot past Brooklyn Nets guard Drake Powell (4) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat guard Norman Powell, left, grabs a rebound over Brooklyn Nets guard Terance Mann (14) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Michael Porter Jr. scored 28 points for the Nets, who went cold after equaling the most lopsided victory in franchise history in their last game. Nic Claxton added 16 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists.
Brooklyn beat Milwaukee 127-82 on Sunday but shot under 39% from the field in this one and was just 11 for 49 (22%) from 3-point range.
Still, Miami's lead was just 86-82 with under five minutes remaining. Ware made a 3-pointer and Jaquez followed with consecutive baskets to extend the Heat lead to 93-82 with 4:01 left.
The Nets missed 10 of their 13 3-point attempts in the fourth quarter.
Heat: Visit Boston on Friday.
Nets: Host Toronto on Sunday.
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Miami Heat guard Norman Powell (24) loses the ball against Brooklyn Nets defenders during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. (11) watches after falling as teammate Dru Smith argues with an official during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. (11) passes the ball around Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. (17) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat guard Davion Mitchell (45) goes up for a shot past Brooklyn Nets guard Drake Powell (4) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Miami Heat guard Norman Powell, left, grabs a rebound over Brooklyn Nets guard Terance Mann (14) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said at a news conference. Perez said as far as investigators know, the suspect acted alone.
Investigators believe Valente is responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who was fatally shot in his Brookline home Monday, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Authorities have not formally confirmed a connection between the two shootings.
The official could not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said 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.
Two people were killed and nine were wounded in the mass shooting Saturday at Brown University. The investigation had shifted Thursday when authorities said they were looking into a connection between the Brown mass shooting and an attack two days later near Boston that killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro.
The FBI previously said it knew of no links between the cases.
A second individual who was identified in proximity to the suspect came forward after Wednesday’s press conference and helped “blow the lid” off the case, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.
“When you crack it, you crack it. That person led us to the car, led us to the name," Neronha said.
Neronha said there are still “a lot of unknowns” in regard to motive. “We don’t know why now, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom,” he said.
Frustration had mounted in Providence that the person behind the attack managed to get away and that a clear image of their face hadn’t emerged.
Although Brown officials say there are 1,200 cameras on campus, the attack happened in an older part of the engineering building that has few, if any, cameras. And investigators believe the shooter entered and left through a door that faces a residential street bordering campus, which might explain why the cameras Brown does have didn’t capture footage of the person.
In such targeted and highly public attacks, the shooters typically kill themselves or are killed or arrested by police, said Katherine Schweit, a retired FBI agent and expert on mass shootings. When they do get away, searches can take time.
In the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, it took investigators four days to catch up to the two brothers who carried it out. In a 2023 case, Army reservist Robert Card was found dead of an apparent suicide two days after he killed 18 people and wounded 13 others in Lewiston, Maine.
The man accused of killing conservative political figure Charlie Kirk in September turned himself in about a day and a half after the attack on Utah Valley University's campus. And Luigi Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last year, was arrested five days later at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Loureiro, 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.
He grew up in Viseu, in central Portugal, and studied in Lisbon before earning a doctorate in London, according to MIT. He was a researcher at an institute for nuclear fusion in Lisbon before joining MIT, the university said.
“He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader, and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner,” Dennis Whyte, an engineering professor who previously led MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, told a campus publication.
Loureiro had said he hoped his work would shape the future.
“It’s not hyperbole to say MIT is where you go to find solutions to humanity’s biggest problems,” Loureiro said when he was named to lead the plasma science lab last year. “Fusion energy will change the course of human history.”
This story was updated to delete a reference to MIT being an Ivy League school.
Richer and Tucker reported from Washington. Associated Press reporters Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed.
People gather outside a storage facility where a suspect in the shooting at Brown University was found dead, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Salem, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)
Law enforcement officers are seen outside a storage facility where a suspect in the shooting at Brown University was found dead, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Salem, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)
Law enforcement officers search the area for the Brown University shooting suspect, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Salem, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)
A pedestrian walks along Brown University's campus on Thayer St. in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Lily Speredelozzi/The Sun Chronicle via AP)
This image taken from video provided by the FBI shows a person of interest in the investigation of the shooting that occurred at Brown University, in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (FBI via AP)
A poster seeking information about the campus shooting suspect is seen on the campus of Brown University, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A woman lights a candle at a memorial set up in front of the Barus and Holley engineering building at Brown University in Providence, RI, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mark Stockwell)
A Brown University student walks past a church on the Providence, RI, campus, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mark Stockwell)
