Overview
- The Justice Department said videos recovered by the FBI show Claudio Neves Valente admitting he planned the Brown University shooting for at least six semesters.
- Valente said he had canvassed Brown’s campus and intended to target a classroom in the Barus and Holley engineering building rather than the auditorium where he opened fire.
- Authorities confirmed he killed two students and wounded nine at Brown on Dec. 13 before fatally shooting MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro two days later.
- Ballistics linked two 9mm Glocks recovered from Valente’s New Hampshire storage unit to the Brown and Brookline crime scenes, and he was later found there dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Investigators identified Valente using surveillance, a public tip about a rented Nissan Sentra, and rental records, and the FBI continues to examine the videos and his movements without a determined motive.