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Brown University shooter confessed in videos to planning attack for long time, showed no remorse: DOJ
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released transcripts of short videos they say were recorded by the gunman responsible for a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Massachusetts.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said investigators recovered an electronic device containing the videos when they executed a federal search warrant on Dec. 18, 2025, at a storage facility used by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, whom authorities described as “the Portuguese national responsible for the senseless murders.”
The videos were recorded in Portuguese and later translated into English, prosecutors said. In the recordings, Neves Valente described the attack as the culmination of long planning.
“It’s done. It was, it was six months, man. Not six months, six semesters. Uh. I had already planned this for a little more,” he said in one video, according to the transcripts.
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Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts released this image showing the man identified in deadly shootings of Brown University students in Rhode Island and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in Massachusetts. (Justice Department)
Authorities said Neves Valente identified Brown University as his intended target but did not provide a motive for shooting students at Brown or for killing the MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro, 47. Prosecutors said the investigation into a motive will continue.
Two Brown students, Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed in the Dec. 13 shooting on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, and nine other people were wounded, authorities said. Just two days later, Loureiro, a professor at MIT, was killed in Brookline.
In the transcript, Neves Valente repeatedly refused to express remorse.
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“So, what has been done now… I’m in a storage space in Salem, I’ve had this here for three years, I think. I still have money. … I am not going to apologize, because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me.” He also rejected that mental illness was to blame, saying: “that’s all bull—- excuses.”
“I am – I am sane,” he said. “I’ve always been, more or less [sane].”
Neves Valente also said President Donald Trump was right to “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.”
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Despite its role as Brown University’s highest governing authority with direct power over presidential oversight and long-term strategy, the board of trustees has declined to comment in the wake of the murders that exposed serious lapses in campus security. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Prosecutors said Neves Valente “showed no remorse” during the recordings and blamed victims for their deaths.
In the transcript, he criticized people’s responses during the shooting, saying, “Because they were kind of stupid.”
He also dismissed how the world would view him after he carried out the mass shooting on the college campus.
“I don’t give a d— about how you judge me or what you think of me,” he said, while also saying, “I also have no interest in being famous.”
Images of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente displayed on a projector screen at a news briefing in Providence, Rhode Island. The 48-year-old former student and Portuguese national has been identified as the gunman behind a mass shooting that killed two students and wounded nine. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)
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Throughout the transcript, he focused on the injury he sustained, saying: “As you can see, my eye is kind of f—– up.”
Neves Valente said that he was injured in what he called a “shell round” that “bounced” into his eye.
A split image showing multiple still frames from the surveillance video taken near Brown University of a person of interest before and after a school shooting. (FBI Boston)
An autopsy previously found Neves Valente died by suicide two days before his body was discovered in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire.
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Authorities said Tuesday they do not believe there is any ongoing public safety threat associated with the shootings and that additional updates will be provided.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
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WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WFSB) – Travelers scrambled to adjust their plans Friday as Winter Storm Benjamin threatened to disrupt transportation across Connecticut, with Amtrak already canceling Sunday trains and airlines expected to follow suit.
At Bradley International Airport, some passengers were getting out ahead of the storm while others prepared for delays and cancellations.
Brian Mulaney of Middletown was heading to Australia, where he’ll experience 80-degree weather while Connecticut deals with up to a foot of snow.
“I’m happy to get away from it, that’s for sure. I don’t enjoy shoveling, so if I can be on a beach instead, that’d be awesome,” Mulaney said. “Going scuba diving, surfing, on the beach, being in 80-degree weather.”
Nick Tomasiewcz, a sophomore at Fordham University, took a different approach. He traveled by train to West Hartford to be home during the storm and planned to delay his Monday return until Wednesday.
“I think I’d rather be home during a big snowstorm. Expected to get a foot of snow. It’s a big deal,” Tomasiewcz said.
Not everyone was concerned about the approaching weather. Paul Randall of Lyndonville, Vermont, planned to drive to Vermont Friday but acknowledged the reality of New England winters.
“What are you going to do? It’s New England. No snakes, no alligators, you gotta put up with the snow,” Randall said.
Brian Spyros of the Connecticut Airport Authority said Bradley International Airport was preparing for the storm’s impact on operations. The airport must clear 13 million square feet of surface area during storms, including runways, taxiways and ramp areas.
“It’s a large undertaking out on the airfield. Between the runway, the taxiway, and the ramp area, it’s 13 million square feet of surface area that we have to clean during the storm,” Spyros said.
The Connecticut Airport Authority emphasized that airlines, not Bradley, make decisions about flight cancellations. No flights had been canceled as of Friday evening, but officials expected schedule adjustments as the storm approaches.
Amtrak has already canceled trains in Connecticut for Sunday. Both Amtrak and Metro-North send notifications to passengers about canceled trains, while airlines typically email customers about flight changes.
Officials urged travelers to check flight and train status regularly as conditions develop. Airlines and rail services were expected to make additional schedule adjustments throughout the weekend as Winter Storm Benjamin approaches the region.
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Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 8,609 in the week ending January 17, down from 9,285 the week before, the Labor Department said.
U.S. unemployment claims rose to 200,000 last week, up 1,000 claims from 199,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Virgin Islands saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 136.4%. Georgia, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 49.4%.
USA TODAY Co. is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s weekly unemployment insurance claims report.
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