Suspect’s confessional videos found in storage unit after Brown University shooting, officials say

People reports that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspect in the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University and the Dec. 15 death of an MIT professor, left a series of short confessional videos that investigators found in a New Hampshire storage facility, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said. Investigators executed a federal search warrant at the facility on Dec. 18, 2025, and discovered the recordings, the office said.

The press release says the recordings include admissions that he had been planning the Brown University shooting "for a long time" and that Brown was his intended target, though initial review of the evidence did not provide a motive for targeting students at Brown or the MIT professor. The Dec. 13 attack killed two people, later identified as Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, 19, and injured nine others. Two days later, Nuno F. G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old MIT professor, was found with apparent gunshot wounds at his Brookline home and pronounced dead the following morning.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said Neves Valente was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the storage facility on Dec. 18, 2025, and that the recordings showed no remorse; the Department of Justice released translated transcripts of the videos with the announcement. Investigators say the probe into his motives remains ongoing.

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