The Brown University shooting suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, spent months planning the attack, according to federal officials. The 48-year-old Portuguese national recorded a series of short videos after the violence, which included no clear motive and suggested significant preparation. In one of the videos, Valente said he had been planning for at least six semesters and claimed that no one had ever sincerely apologized to him in his lifetime.
Valente's videos also revealed that he opened fire inside a Brown auditorium on December 13, wounding nine students and killing two - Ella Cook, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18. Two days later, authorities say Valente fatally shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home near Boston.
In one of the videos, Valente said he had previously considered carrying out a shooting at Brown but "always chickened out." The motive behind the shooting and the attack on Loureiro remains unclear. Federal officials stated that Neves Valente showed no remorse during the recordings, exposing his true nature when blaming innocent children for their deaths.
A Reddit user who encountered Neves Valente at Brown University is credited with providing crucial clues that helped authorities track him to a storage unit in New Hampshire. Neves Valente's last known address was in Miami, and it appears he attended Brown as a Ph.D. physics student before withdrawing in 2003.
An investigation into the possible motive behind the shooting will continue, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Valente's videos also revealed that he opened fire inside a Brown auditorium on December 13, wounding nine students and killing two - Ella Cook, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18. Two days later, authorities say Valente fatally shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home near Boston.
In one of the videos, Valente said he had previously considered carrying out a shooting at Brown but "always chickened out." The motive behind the shooting and the attack on Loureiro remains unclear. Federal officials stated that Neves Valente showed no remorse during the recordings, exposing his true nature when blaming innocent children for their deaths.
A Reddit user who encountered Neves Valente at Brown University is credited with providing crucial clues that helped authorities track him to a storage unit in New Hampshire. Neves Valente's last known address was in Miami, and it appears he attended Brown as a Ph.D. physics student before withdrawing in 2003.
An investigation into the possible motive behind the shooting will continue, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
this guy is like something out of a horror movie all these months planning & recording himself, it's just not right 
...he didn't even have a clear motive, just rants about people never apologizing to him 
...and now he's gone, but the trauma for those students & families will last forever 
this guy is so messed up 
? what a huge red flag 
... i mean, who talks like that in public and records it? 
also, fatally shooting a professor two days after the college incident is just on another level 
... i'm all for getting to the bottom of this motive thing, hope they find out why he did what he did 
... I mean, can you even imagine being in a situation where someone's planning to do something like that? It's terrifying just thinking about it. And Claudio Neves Valente had months of planning, just casually recording videos and talking about how nobody ever apologized to him... like, what even is that supposed to be an excuse? 
it's like, dude, that's not an excuse for killing people! 
& 2 ppl lost their lives... rips. i'm trying to process everything rn but idk what else to say 
. The average age of shooters is around 25-30 years old, and most are male 
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. Yet, only 1% of those with severe mental illnesses receive treatment 
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. Did he struggle with his studies or was there something else going on? We might never know for sure.
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. Can't imagine what would drive someone to such a horrific act 
#JusticeForEllaAndMukhammad #BrownUniversityShooting #NeverForget
he was planning it for months and then just went for it 
it's like he didn't care about anyone except himself 
that's so messed up 
why did he have to go out and hurt others instead of just talking things through? 
the guy who found Neves Valente at Brown is a hero 
for helping the cops catch him 
now we just gotta wait and see if they figure out what made him do this 
. The Reddit user who helped authorities track him down is a total hero 
! And now there's another killing in Boston... this is just getting too real 
. This case is going to take a while to unravel, I hope justice is served soon 
#BrownUniversityShooting #MassacreInTheUSA #JusticeForTheVictims