PROVIDENCE, R.I. —
The United States Department of Justice released transcripts Tuesday of what they said is a series of short videos that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente made following a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor he allegedly committed.
In those videos, the Portuguese national claimed to have no regrets about what he did.
NewsCenter 5 was not provided a copy of the videos or audio of the recordings.
On Dec. 18, 2025, investigators executed a search warrant at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, allegedly used by Neves Valente.
A DOJ spokesperson said during a search of that facility, the FBI found an electronic device containing several short videos made by Neves Valente in which he admitted to planning the Brown University shooting for a long time.
In the newly released transcripts, which were translated from Portuguese, Neves Valente said, “To say that I was extraordinarily satisfied, no, but I also don’t regret what I did.”
He also stated that he had been planning the Brown shooting for a long time.
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Neves Valente expressed surprise at the investigation following shootings.
“I honestly never thought it would take them so long to find me,” he allegedly stated in one of the videos.
Neves Valente allegedly said in one video that he is not mentally ill and is perfectly sane.
He stated that he did not commit the crimes for fame and that he has “absolutely no patience” for manifestos or leaving a legacy.
According to the DOJ transcripts, Neves Valente claimed he had no hate for America, but no love for it.
He also addressed rumors that “Allah Akbar” was yelled during the Brown University shooting.
“It seems like someone over there said that I was saying that I was… Allah Akbar [PH] or some [expletive] like that. I do not remember having said anything. If I did say something, it must have been some kind of an–an exclamation, uhm, because I thought that one… I–I never wanted to do it in an auditorium. I wanted to do it in a regular room.”
Federal authorities said although the college was Neves Valente’s intended target, he did not provide a motive for targeting students or MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, a former classmate of his.
“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,” a DOJ spokesperson wrote in a press release.
Brown University also released the following statement:
“We recognize that reading the transcripts released today of videos made by the suspect identified by the government is likely to intensify feelings of anxiety, stress and concern for many Brown community members. Less than a month after an act of unimaginable, senseless violence took the lives of two students and injured nine others, the gravity of this tragedy continues to weigh heavily on the full Brown University community and the city we call home. We continue to mourn the loss of our two students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, and to pray for the full recovery of our nine students who were injured.”
A Brown spokesperson said the campus has expanded security enhancements so that the Dec. 13 attack “never happens again.”
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley called the transcripts “truly disturbing,” saying in part:
“While I am grateful that our community has received answers to many of the questions that lingered since this incident, those answers will not provide complete closure and can’t heal the wounds in families and communities that will never fully recover. Still, I hope this information can provide further comfort to our neighbors that there is no ongoing threat to our community. The City remains committed to supporting our students, staff, families and the Providence community during this process.”
Providence Police Chief Colonel Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said his department worked closely with local, state, and federal partners to identify the suspect and ensure there was no ongoing threat to public safety, but said federal authorities assumed an expanded role after Neves Valente was found dead.
“We recognize the profound impact these crimes have had on the victims’ families and the Brown and MIT communities,” he said. “We echo federal officials in stating there is no known ongoing public safety threat and remain committed to supporting our partners as the investigation continues.”
The investigation remains ongoing.