The suspect in the shootings that killed two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor left behind videos that provide some new insight into what might have driven him, according to a transcript of video footage released by law enforcement officials on Tuesday.
The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, made the videos before taking his own life in a storage facility in Salem, N.H., and investigators found them on Mr. Neves Valente’s devices.
They were recorded in Portuguese, and the authorities had the videos translated to English.
In his final moments before taking his own life, Mr. Neves Valente, a former Brown physics student, said he had no second thoughts about what he had done, according to a transcript of the videos.
“I am not going to apologize,” he said in one of the videos, “because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me.”
Mr. Neves Valente briefly studied physics at Brown in the early 2000s before dropping out. Security and traffic videos show that he had lurked around the Brown campus in the East Side neighborhood of Providence, R.I., for nearly two weeks. On Dec. 13, he burst into a lecture hall in the Barus and Holley science building and started firing with a handgun fixed with a laser scope. Investigators later found 44 spent shell casings.
Two students, MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, died in the attack. Nine others were wounded, some critically.
After escaping ahead of a huge police dragnet, Mr. Neves Valente crossed the border into Massachusetts, and fatally shot the M.I.T. professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, on Dec. 15 in his home in Brookline, Mass. They were former classmates: Both men studied from 1995 to 2000 at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, the authorities have said.
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