The suspect accused of fatally shooting two Brown University students and an MIT professor in December admitted in videos found on an electronic device to having planned the attack for several months, officials said Tuesday.
Investigators executed a federal search warrant at a storage facility on Dec. 18, days after the killings, and discovered the short videos that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente recorded in Portuguese, the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Massachusetts said. Authorities released a transcript of the videos, translated into English.
Prosecutors said that in the videos, Valente stated that Brown was his intended target. But, prosecutors said, “based on initial review of the evidence collected,” Valente did not provide a motive for either shooting.
“Neves Valente showed no remorse during the recordings; on the contrary, he exposed his true nature when he blamed innocent, unarmed children for their deaths at his hand and grumbled about a self-inflicted injury he suffered when he shot the MIT professor at close range,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Officials said their investigation remains ongoing.
Valente burst into a lecture hall at Brown on Dec. 13 and opened fire during an economics study session, killing freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook, officials said. Two days later, Valente allegedly shot and killed Nuno Loureiro, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Loureiro’s home near Boston. Valente and Loureiro both enrolled in an engineering program at the Instituto Superior Técnico, a university in Portugal, in 1995.
Police found Valente dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Dec. 18 at a New Hampshire storage facility.
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