DOJ: Shooter in Brown, MIT Killings Planned Attack for Years

By MES Dispatch staff

The Briefing

• The U.S. Department of Justice said the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years. WBOC TV
• The suspect, identified as 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility. WBOC TV
• FBI agents recovered video recordings in which Valente admitted planning the shootings but did not provide a motive. WBOC TV
• The Dec. 13 attack at Brown’s campus killed two students and wounded nine people; two days later, an MIT professor was killed in Brookline. WBOC TV
• Authorities have not released a motive and said the investigation continues. WBOC TV

BOSTON, MA — The man identified as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned his attacks for years, U.S. Justice Department officials said Tuesday, releasing video recordings recovered by the FBI. WBOC TV

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead by authorities in a storage facility in New Hampshire on Dec. 18, six days after the initial shooting at Brown University’s engineering building on Dec. 13. WBOC TV

In the recordings, Valente admitted in Portuguese that he had been planning the Brown University shooting “for a long time,” with prosecutors saying he had worked out details over at least six semesters, but he did not offer a clear motive for his actions. WBOC TV

The Dec. 13 attack at Brown in Providence, Rhode Island, killed students Ella Cook, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, and wounded nine others, authorities said. Two days later, Valente allegedly shot and killed Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at his Brookline, Massachusetts, home. WBOC TV

Federal officials recovered the videos during the search of the storage unit where Valente’s body was located, but authorities have not yet determined a motive for targeting the university and professor, and the investigation remains open as agents and prosecutors review evidence. WBOC TV