Cold-Blooded Confessions from Brown University Gunman
Claudio Neves Valente, the gunman responsible for the tragic shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has chillingly confessed to planning the attacks for several years, showing no remorse in a series of unsettling video statements released by federal authorities.
The Justice Department unveiled recordings of four incoherent videos that the 48-year-old recorded last month after he shot and killed two students at the Ivy League campus in Rhode Island. He then traveled to Massachusetts, where days later he fatally shot a former classmate and educator.
“It’s over. It was six months, not six months, not six semesters, I was planning a little more,” Valente stated in one particularly disturbing video, while lamenting about an eye injury he had sustained.
“I don’t regret what I did either. But it was really hard. I think I have too much inertia,” he added, revealing a lack of accountability for his actions.
In the videos, translated from Portuguese to English, Valente described the shooting as a fleeting “opportunity,” expressing a desire to die “of his own free will” to minimize his suffering.
“I’m not going to apologize, because no one has truly apologized to me in my lifetime,” he asserted, speaking passionately in the recording. Valente was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 18, following a nearly week-long search.
He also mentioned feeling envious of those who could kill without hesitation, remarking that he had numerous chances to carry out an attack at Brown but had previously held back.
On December 13, he finally went through with his plan. Armed with a gun, he fired over 40 rounds into a classroom at Providence College, tragically killing 19-year-old Ella Cook from Alabama and 18-year-old Uzbek-American freshman Mohammad Aziz Umurzokov. Nine others were injured in the attack.
Following the shootings in Rhode Island, Valente traveled approximately 80 miles. Just two days later, he killed Nuno Loureiro, a professor at MIT, in his Brookline townhouse. The two had studied together in Portugal years earlier.
While the motive for his rampage remains unclear, Valente claimed to have sent three emails outlining the reasons behind his actions. There has been no immediate disclosure regarding the content or recipients of these emails.
In his recordings, he defiantly claimed his sanity during his violent spree, dismissing any suggestions of mental illness as nonsense. “I’m sane,” Valente insisted, adding that he found some twisted pride in being labeled an “animal” by former President Trump.
Valente expressed a clear disinterest in fame, stating multiple times that he didn’t care about public perception of him. After filming the videos, he had thought he had “several hours” before anyone would find him, at which point he took his own life. His body was discovered two days later.
A federal investigation into this horrifying case is still ongoing.




