Cláudio Neves Valente caught by the FBI on video surveillance cameras.
The Portuguese man suspected of killing two students at Brown University and a fellow countryman at MIT confessed that he had been planning those attacks for many months, but did not reveal the reasons for carrying them out.
Cláudio Neves Valente48, 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 entered the home of Nuno Loureito, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Nuno Loureiro in his home in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, and we-of.
Department of Justice 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.
“No one has ever sincerely apologized to me”
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 North American Justice Department.
Neves did not give a reason for attacking Brown or Nuno Loureirowith whom he had studied at the Instituto Superior Técnico, 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”: “I’m not going to apologize because, in my entire life, no one has ever sincerely apologized to me.”he stressed, according to the North American Court.
In the videos, He also complained of having injured his eye during the shooting..
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 in 2000, the year in which 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.
