Brown Shooting Confession Released: 6 Semesters of Planning?!

**Brown University Shooting: DOJ Releases Video Transcripts of Shooter's Confession; Attacks Planned for Six Semesters** *TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jan 07, 2026, 05:25 IST* The Department of Justice has released transcripts revealing the shooter confessed to planning the attacks at Brown University and MIT for six semesters. That's a long time to harbor that kind of darkness, and it makes you wonder what warning signs were missed, if any.

Federal authorities assert that Claudio Neves Valente, the perpetrator who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor, had been planning the attacks for at least six semesters. He subsequently recorded a series of videos in which he expressed no remorse, rejected apologies, and described the shootings as deliberate acts. The US Department of Justice released transcripts of these recordings on Tuesday, days after formally confirming Valente's death.

Brown Shooting Confession Released: 6 Semesters of...

The release of these transcripts offers a chilling glimpse into the mind of a killer, but more importantly, it's crucial information for the affected communities. It's a small step towards understanding the incomprehensible, even if it can never truly bring back those who were lost.

**The Attacks, the Suspect, and Confirmation of Death**

The shooter, identified by law enforcement as Claudio Neves Valente, was a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University student. On December 13th, he opened fire inside an engineering building at Brown University, killing two students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, and wounding nine others.

Two days later, on December 15th, Valente fatally shot Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Loureiro was an MIT professor who had attended school in Portugal decades earlier with Valente. The connection between them is still being investigated, as far as I know.

On Thursday, December 18, 2025, the US Attorneys’ Offices, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives jointly announced Valente’s death. He was found dead inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. During a federal search of the storage unit, investigators recovered an electronic device containing several short videos Valente recorded after the shootings. That storage unit, tucked away in New Hampshire, felt like a key piece of the puzzle, a place where Valente retreated with his dark thoughts.

**Planning, Intent, and Lack of Remorse**

In a statement released by the US Department of Justice, officials said the FBI recovered the device while executing a federal search warrant on December 18th. The videos were recorded in Portuguese and later translated into English. “In these videos, Neves Valente admitted that he had been planning the Brown University shooting for a long time,” the department said, adding that he did not provide a motive for his actions but that they would provide more as soon as possible. The focus of the investigation, officials said, is now on understanding the motive behind the killings.