Overview
- The U.S. Attorney’s Office released translations of four short videos recovered by the FBI from an electronic device found after the December shootings.
- In the transcripts, Claudio Neves Valente admits he planned the Brown attack over at least six semesters and shows no remorse, repeatedly noting an eye injury.
- Prosecutors say the recordings offer no explanation for targeting Brown students Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov or MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro.
- Valente was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot on Dec. 18 in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit, where agents seized the device containing the videos.
- Officials say evidence indicates no ongoing public-safety threat and the motive search continues, with investigators crediting a Reddit tip among leads that guided the manhunt.