Claudio Neves Valente, the man identified as the killer of two Brown University students and an MIT professor, had planned the attacks for years and left behind videos confessing to the shootings but offering no motive, according to U.S. Department of Justice officials.
Officials announced on Tuesday (Jan. 6) that the videos of the 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national were recovered by the FBI inside of the same New Hampshire storage facility where he was found dead on Dec. 18.
Neves Valente recorded the videos after the Dec. 13 shooting.
In the videos, Valente said he had been working out details for the shootings for at least six semesters, felt he had nothing to apologize for, and complained about injuring his eye, according to Portuguese to English translations provided by the DOJ.
"I'm not going to apologize because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me," he said in one of the videos.
Neves Valente also addressed false claims spread by conservative influencer Laura Loomer that he shouted something like "Allahu akbar" when entering the Brown auditorium. He said he did not speak Arabic or intend to make a statement and, if he said anything, he "must have made an exclamation like, 'Oh no!' or something like that," because he thought the room was empty.
"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."
Neves Valente’s shooting took place inside of an engineering building. His victims were identified as Brown University students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, per CBS News.
Two days later, Neves Valente fatally shot MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home near Boston.