Law enforcement says a grudge drove the Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s murder; suspect left video, killed self after manhunt.
The man accused of killing two Brown University students and an MIT professor mentioned President Donald Trump in a confessional video and had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to information released Tuesday by the U.
S. Department of Justice. Why it Matters Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown graduate student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a six-day manhunt. Authorities say Valente opened fire on a study group inside Brown’s engineering building on Dec. 13, killing two students and wounding nine others. Two days later, he fatally shot MIT nuclear physics professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at Loureiro’s home in Brookline, Massachusetts. What to Know Justice Department officials said FBI agents recovered an electronic device from the storage unit containing a series of short videos Valente recorded after the shootings. In the recordings, made in Portuguese, Valente admitted he had been “planning the Brown University shooting for a long time,” according to a press release. He did not explain why he targeted Brown or Loureiro, whom he had known decades earlier in Portugal. This image provided by Providence Police Dept. shows surveillance images of Claudio Neves Valente, a suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University. He also mentions remarks made by President Donald Trump in one of the videos. “We're going to see what happens,“ Trump told reporters on December 15. “Hopefully they're going to capture this animal.“ “I also have no interest in being famous. I don't give a damn about how you judge me or what you think of me. The overwhelming majority of things that are going to be said, I can already imagine. In fact, I was already reading, uhm, I particularly like Trump's sh*t, to have--have called me an animal, which is true. I am an animal and he is also, but uhm, I have no love--I have no hatred towards America, I also have no hatred at all. This was an issue of… of opportunity.“ Valente said he felt no need to apologize and complained about injuring his eye during the attack. “I’m not going to apologize because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me,” he said in one video. He described his goal as leaving “on my own terms” and ensuring he “wouldn’t be the one who ended up suffering the most from all this.” Valente called his execution of the killings “a little incompetent,” adding, “But at least something was done.” In the recordings, Valente said he had rented the storage space where his body was found for about three years. He died by suicide before investigators discovered his remains. Updates: This headline and article were updated with new information and remarks.
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