{"id":392832,"date":"2026-01-07T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392832\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:55:10","slug":"brown-university-shooting-suspect-in-brown-university-mass-shooting-confessed-in-a-series-of-videos-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392832\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University shooting: Suspect in Brown University mass shooting confessed in a series of videos, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The suspect<\/a> in last month\u2019s mass shooting<\/a> at Brown University and subsequent killing of an MIT professor admitted to the attacks in a series of short videos authorities recovered from an electronic device, the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Massachusetts said Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n The office released transcripts of the four videos taken after the deadly December shootings by suspect Claudio Neves Valente<\/a>, translated from Portuguese to English. Valente did not offer a motive \u2013 or apologies \u2013 for the attacks in the videos.\n <\/p>\n

\n Two students<\/a> \u2014 Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov \u2014 died in the attack at Brown, while Nuno F.G. Loureiro<\/a>, an MIT professor, was fatally shot at his home near Boston.\n <\/p>\n

\n The electronic device with the videos was found in the New Hampshire storage facility, where authorities located Valente\u2019s body after he died by suicide, capping days of terror<\/a> that had followed the violence.\n <\/p>\n

\n During the more than 11 minutes Valente spoke in the videos, he offered vague misgivings about unnamed people, addressed how he was portrayed in the media in the days after the shooting and detailed what he saw in the Brown auditorium that he attacked.\n <\/p>\n

Motive remains unclear<\/p>\n

\n In one video, Valente said he didn\u2019t care about being famous or leaving a legacy in the wake of the shooting, and \u201ceven though I would have a lot to say and write,\u201d he lacked the patience for a manifesto.\n <\/p>\n

\n Valente ambiguously offered that the \u201cobjective\u201d was to leave \u201con my own terms,\u201d but not to \u201cbe the one who ended up suffering the most from all of this.\u201d It\u2019s not clear in the transcript where he wanted to leave or from what he was suffering.\n <\/p>\n

\n Though the videos did not reveal a motive, the federal investigation into Valente\u2019s motivations will continue, the US attorney\u2019s office said.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Valente said he had been planning the attack for more than six semesters and had \u201cplenty of opportunities\u201d to carry out the shooting earlier, but \u201calways chickened out.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Valente said he had no regret in the attacks, only that they resulted in a serious eye injury after he was struck by a shell round.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t give a damn about how you judge me or what you think of me,\u201d Valente said in one video.\n <\/p>\n

\n Valente said he \u201cnever\u201d wanted to conduct the shooting at Brown University in an auditorium.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI wanted to do it in a regular room,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, it all went wrong.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n When he walked into the auditorium, Valente said he only saw one man in the classroom and thought the others had left through the emergency exit after the shooting started.\n <\/p>\n

\n He didn\u2019t realize multiple students were hiding in the classroom when he believed it to be empty and left, Valente said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The suspect said the people who hid \u201cwere kind of stupid\u201d for not using the emergency exit.\n <\/p>\n

Valente addressed investigation and escape<\/p>\n

\n Over multiple videos, Valente mentioned having been confronted following the shooting and his surprise over how long it was taking authorities to find him.\n <\/p>\n

\n A man had encountered Valente in the building where the shooting took place, noting the suspect\u2019s clothing was inadequate for the cold weather, CNN previously reported<\/a>. He followed Valente to his car, asking him why he kept circling the block.\n <\/p>\n

\n Valente spoke about the encounter in the videos, saying the man who confronted him knew his license plate number, and he \u201cnever thought it would take them so long to find me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Valente said he hoped to have a few hours isolated in the storage facility before authorities found him.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cEven though the stupid car is outside, and obviously there is a record of my entry, and there are cameras and sh*t,\u201d he said. \u201cThe longer I stay here the better.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Valente addressed rumors that he had shouted \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d during the shooting. He said he didn\u2019t remember shouting anything, and if he did, \u201cit must have been some kind of an exclamation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He also said he read that President Donald Trump called him an \u201canimal\u201d while investigators were searching for Valente.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI am an animal and he is also,\u201d Valente said.\n <\/p>\n

\n This story has been updated with additional information.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in last month\u2019s mass shooting at Brown University and subsequent killing of an MIT professor admitted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-392832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}