Cláudio Neves Valente did not give a reason for attacking Brown or the MIT professor, with whom he studied in Portugal several years ago.
The Portuguese man suspected of killing two Brown University students and a fellow MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to data released today by the United States Department of Justice.
Cláudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese citizen, was found dead in a warehouse in New Hampshire after killing two students and injuring nine other people in an engineering building on December 13.
Two days later, he killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nuno Loureiro in his home in Brookline, a suburb of Boston.
Justice Department authorities said this Tuesday that, during the search of the warehouse where Neves Valente’s body was found, the FBI (federal police) recovered an electronic device that contained a series of short videos recorded by Neves Valente after the shootings.
In the recordings, the shooter admits in Portuguese that he had been “planning the attack on Brown University for a long time”, according to a press release from the US Justice Department.
Neves did not give a reason for attacking Brown or the MIT professor, with whom he studied in Portugal decades ago.
According to US authorities, the Portuguese said he did not feel he had anything to apologize for and that he wanted to “go out on his own”.
In the videos, he also complained of having injured his eye during the shooting.
“I’m not going to apologize because, throughout my life, no one has sincerely apologized to me,” he stressed, according to the US court.
Valente was a monitor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), in Lisbon, where he was a classmate of Loureiro’s, and the institution terminated his contract the year he went to study in the United States.
In February 2000, Técnico terminated the contract it had with Cláudio Neves Valente as monitor, as stated in an order published in March of that year in the Diário da República.
The suspect and victim were course mates at IST, said the institution, which confirmed in December that it had been contacted by US authorities following the homicide investigation.
