MIT, Brown University shooter planned deadly attack for months, DOJ says

Autopsy: Brown University shooter dead for 2 days

Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in last weekend's deadly shooting at Brown University and the fatal shooting of an MIT professor days later, died two days before his body was found, according to the New Hampshire Medical Examiner. The 48-year-old Portuguese national was found dead at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire on Thursday night, but the investigation is far from over. Jillian Snider, a retired NYPD officer joined LiveNOW's Josh Breslow to discuss the investigation.

The man who investigators say shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attacks for months.

The Department of Justice said 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders. 

Chilling videos found in storage facility 

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During a search of the storage facility where Neves Valente’s body was found on Dec. 18, 2025, the FBI recovered an electronic device containing a series of short videos made by Neves Valente after the shootings.

In the recordings, the shooter admits in Portuguese that he had been working out details for at least six semesters. 

In an English-translated transcript provided by the Justice Department, Neves Valente said he felt he had nothing to apologize for. He also complained in the videos about injuring his eye in the shootings.

FILE - The storage facility where the suspect behind the mass shooting at Brown University was found dead, is pictured in Salem, New Hampshire, on Dec. 19, 2025. (Photo by Bing Guan / AFP via Getty Images)

What they're saying:

"I’m not going to apologize because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me," he said.

He explicitly addressed baseless claims spread by conservative influencer Laura Loomer after the attack that the Brown shooter had spoken in Arabic, saying something like "Allahu Akbar" upon entering the auditorium.

Neves Valente said he didn’t speak a word of Arabic or intend to make any kind of statement. If he said anything, he "must have made an exclamation like, ‘Oh no!’ or something like that," to express disappointment that the auditorium appeared to be empty when he entered, he said.

Students were hiding under desks, but Neves Valente thought they’d already escaped through an emergency exit.

"I never wanted to do it in an auditorium. I wanted to do it in a regular room," he said. "I had plenty of opportunities. Especially this semester, I had plenty of opportunities, but I always chickened out."

He insisted he was not mentally ill. He said he didn’t want to be famous and that the video wasn’t a manifesto.

Neves Valente said his "only objective was to leave more or less" on his "own terms" and to ensure he "wouldn’t be the one who ended up suffering the most from all this."

"No, that cannot happen. So if you don’t like it, tough luck," he said. Neves Valente called his execution of the murders "a little incompetent."

"But at least something was done," he said.

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No motive

He did not provide a motive for targeting Brown or the MIT professor, with whom he attended school in Portugal decades ago.

Neves Valente said he had no hatred or love for the United States, where he first arrived around 25 years ago to study physics at Brown's graduate program before leaving in the spring of 2001.

He had studied at Brown on a student visa and eventually obtained legal permanent residence status in September 2017. His last known residence was in Miami.

"It’s the same thing with Portugal, and most of the places where I have been," he said, adding later that "I’ve been here without caring for a very long time now."