BOSTON, Massachusetts — Federal investigators say the man responsible for the deadly shootings at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor had been planning the attacks for years, according to new details released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Authorities identified the shooter as Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown University student and Portuguese national. Investigators say Neves Valente fatally shot two Brown students and wounded nine others inside an engineering building on Dec. 13. Two days later, he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the professor’s home in Brookline. Neves Valente was later found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire.
The Justice Department said the FBI recovered an electronic device from the storage unit containing videos recorded by Neves Valente after the shootings. In the recordings, spoken in Portuguese, he admitted planning the Brown attack for “a long time,” specifying a period of at least six academic semesters. He did not explain why he targeted Brown or Loureiro, with whom he attended school decades earlier in Portugal.
In the videos, Neves Valente expressed no remorse, stating he had nothing to apologize for and criticizing what he described as the “incompetence” of his actions while maintaining they served his purpose. He said his objective was to end events on his own terms and claimed he had rented the storage unit for roughly three years.
Officials said the new disclosures provide insight into the timeline but do not establish a clear motive.
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