Man who killed Brown College college students and MIT professor left behind recordings

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The person recognized by regulation enforcement because the shooter who killed two Brown College college students and an MIT professor recorded movies saying he had been planning the assault for no less than six semesters, in response to info launched Tuesday by the U.S. Division of Justice.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown pupil and Portuguese nationwide, was discovered useless in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed two college students and wounded 9 others in an engineering constructing on Dec. 13, and, two days later, killed MIT Prof. Nuno F.G. Loureiro in his residence within the Boston suburb of Brookline.

Justice Division officers mentioned Tuesday that throughout the search of the storage facility the place Neves Valente's physique was discovered, the FBI recovered an digital machine containing a collection of brief movies made by Neves Valente after the shootings.

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He mentioned he felt he had nothing to apologize for and that he needed to "go away on his personal phrases." He additionally complained within the movies about injuring his eye within the shootings.

"I am not going to apologize as a result of throughout my lifetime nobody sincerely apologized to me," he mentioned.

Neves Valente, who police have mentioned died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, mentioned his "solely goal was to depart kind of" on his "personal phrases" and to make sure he "would not be the one who ended up struggling essentially the most from all this."

"No, that can't occur. So in case you do not prefer it, powerful luck," he mentioned.

Within the recording, he mentioned he'd had the cupboard space the place his physique was discovered for about three years.

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In response to officers, the person had a number of encounters with Neves Valente earlier than the assault and, upon seeing pictures they posted of the gunman, he advised the FBI to look into "presumably a rental" grey Nissan.

Up till that time, the police affidavit says officers had not linked a automobile to the capturing.

Neves Valente mentioned on the recording that the witness had seen his licence plate and that police "confronted" him concerning the capturing.

"I truthfully by no means thought it will take them so lengthy to search out me," he mentioned.

Neves Valente mentioned he had no hatred or love for the US, the place he first arrived round 25 years in the past to review physics at Brown's graduate program earlier than leaving within the spring of 2001.

Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a pupil visa. He ultimately obtained authorized everlasting residence standing in September 2017. His final recognized residence was in Miami.

"It is the identical factor with Portugal, and a lot of the locations the place I've been," he mentioned, including later that "I have been right here with out caring for a really very long time now."