HomeLatest NewsBrown University shooting videos show awareness and planning, experts say

Brown University shooting videos show awareness and planning, experts say

Published on

Featured

Mississippi man charged with murder after 6 killed in overnight shootings, including 7-year-old

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 24-year-old man is...

Who is Michael David McKee, the man accused of killing ex-wife and dentist husband in Ohio

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michael David McKee was...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

Federal investigators are continuing to piece together the December shootings that killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor, leaving nine others wounded, authorities said.

Authorities on Tuesday released transcripts of videos they say were recorded by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man responsible for the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT physicist.

Two Brown students, Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed in the Dec. 13 shooting on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, and nine other people were wounded, authorities said. Just two days later, Nuno Loureiro, a professor at MIT, was killed in Brookline, Mass.

As of the latest update, eight of the students injured at Brown had been released from the hospital, while one person remained hospitalized.

BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTER CONFESSED IN VIDEOS TO PLANNING ATTACK FOR LONG TIME, SHOWED NO REMORSE: DOJ

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, investigators executed a federal search warrant on Dec. 18 at a storage facility used by Neves Valente, a Portuguese national. The FBI recovered an electronic device containing several short videos recorded after the shootings. Transcripts of those videos, translated from Portuguese to English, were released Tuesday.

In the recordings, prosecutors said Neves Valente admitted he had been planning the Brown shooting for a long time and said Brown was his intended target. Authorities said he did not provide a motive for targeting Brown students or the MIT professor.

Investigators said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced the gun used in the shootings as part of the investigation.

Officials have not publicly released details about the weapon’s origin or purchase history. Fox News Digital has reached out to the FBI for comment.

split image of victims in the brown and mit shootings

GET ALL THE LATEST US NEWS HERE

Josh Schirard, a former tactical emergency response director at the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting and director of Byrna Law Enforcement, said the transcripts confirm responsibility for the attack but offer little clarity about why it occurred.

“He understood what he did. He understood that he had a why behind it,” Schirard said. “He just didn’t opine on why that was.”

Schirard said the shooter rejected ideological explanations and denied being mentally ill.

Brown University shooter found dead

EVIDENCE SHOWS DEADLY BROWN, MIT SHOOTINGS MAY BE LINKED, SOURCES SAY: REPORT

“He even says, ‘I’m not mentally ill. I am very sane, and I did this knowing what I was doing,’” Schirard said.

“He talks about how killing those people was hard,” Schirard said, adding that the shooter said he envied people who could do so “without difficulty.”

Split of Claudio Neves-Valente

FOLLOW THE FOX CRIME TEAM ON X

An autopsy previously found Neves Valente died by suicide two days before his body was discovered in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Authorities said they do not believe there is any ongoing public safety threat associated with the shootings and that additional updates will be provided.

Read the full article here

Latest articles

DC pipe bomb suspect pleads not guilty to planting devices at DNC and RNC headquarters

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The man accused of...

Iran flips ‘kill switch’ to hide alleged crimes as death toll rises amid protests

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Iranian regime triggered...

‘Times Square Killer’ used fake police badge to murder 18-year-old nursing student: deathbed confession

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Alys Eberhardt, an 18-year-old...

Police arrest surgeon ex-husband of Ohio woman slain alongside dentist husband in double murder, records show

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The...

More like this

Aurora terrorized by Venezuelan gang as dictator Maduro let Tren de Aragua seize power

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A sprawling prison in...

Mississippi man charged with murder after 6 killed in overnight shootings, including 7-year-old

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 24-year-old man is...

Who is Michael David McKee, the man accused of killing ex-wife and dentist husband in Ohio

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michael David McKee was...