In brief
Law enforcement identified Claudio Neves Valente, a former Brown University student, as the shooter who killed two students and an MIT professor. Investigations revealed he had been planning the attacks for six semesters. Valente expressed no remorse in videos recorded after the shootings, where he acknowledged his actions and criticized his own execution of the plan, describing it as 'a little incompetent.'
BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on December 13. Two days later, he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline.
Justice Department officials said Tuesday that during the search of the storage facility where Neves Valente’s body was found, the FBI recovered an electronic device containing a series of short videos made by Neves Valente after the shootings.
In the recordings, the shooter admits in Portuguese that he had been “planning the Brown University shooting for a long time,” according to a press release. He did not provide a motive for targeting Brown or the MIT professor, with whom he attended school in Portugal decades ago.
“I’m not going to apologize because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me,” he said.
He criticized the execution of his plan, calling it “a little incompetent.” Valente stated that he wanted to leave “on my own terms” and ensure he wouldn’t suffer the most as a result of his actions.
“But at least something was done,” he said, reflecting a chilling detachment from the consequences of his actions. In the recording, he revealed he had the storage space where his body was found for about three years, indicating premeditated actions over a long period before the tragic events unfolded.