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DOJ Transcripts Show Suspect Planned Brown Attack and Claimed Responsibility

Recovered recordings tie Claudio Neves Valente to both attacks, with motive still under review.

Investigators look December 18 at a grey Nissan at a storage facility in New Hampshire, where the Brown University suspect took his own life.
People gather December 18 outside a storage facility where the suspect in the shootings at Brown University and of an MIT professor was found dead.
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Overview

  • On Jan. 6, prosecutors released English translations of videos recovered from an electronic device found in a Salem, N.H., storage unit searched under a federal warrant.
  • In the recordings, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente says Brown was his intended target and describes long-term planning across multiple semesters, offers no motive, and notes he was injured by a shell round striking his eye.
  • Authorities have linked the December incidents, in which Brown students Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed and nine others wounded, and MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in Brookline two days later.
  • Investigators say the ATF traced the firearm used, but officials have not released details about the weapon’s origin or purchase history.
  • An autopsy determined Valente died by suicide two days before his body was found, authorities report no ongoing public safety threat, and most injured students have been discharged with one person still hospitalized.