US federal prosecutors have released transcripts of videos in which the alleged perpetrator of last month's shooting... Brown University He allegedly admitted to having planned his attack "for a long time", according to the prosecution.
Four video recordings were discovered during a search of a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, where the suspect, Claudio Neves ValenteThe 48-year-old man was found dead on December 18, having taken his own life with a gunshot. This discovery brought an end to a six-day manhunt, authorities said.
A former doctoral student in physics at Brown about twenty years ago, Valente entered an engineering building on campus on December 13 and opened fire with a handgun, killing two and injuring nine students, according to police.
Investigators later established that after leaving Providence, the suspect had also killed a physics professor from MIT during a separate shooting at his home near Boston. Authorities stated that Valente and the victim, Nuno Loureirohad been classmates in Lisbon, although at this stage no clear motive was established linking the two attacks.
The transcripts, translated from Portuguese into English by the Federal Bureau of InvestigationThese are the first statements attributed to the suspect since his death. However, they provide little information about the motives for the violence.
According to the Boston federal prosecutor's office, Valente admitted to planning the Brown shooting for months. In rambling statements, he mentioned an eye injury caused by a shell casing and claimed to have been preparing his act "for a little over six semesters."
He never explicitly mentions having shot or killed anyone, contenting himself with vague allusions and unspecified grievances. "I do not regret what I did," he notably declares in one of the recordings, without expressing any remorse.
Prosecutors have indicated that the evidence gathered so far does not support the existence of a persistent threat to public safety. However, the investigation is continuing to determine the suspect's exact motives.
