Matt OBrien – APA memorial of flowers and signs lay outside the Barus and Holley engineering building at Brown University, on Hope Street in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Department of Justice said the man responsible for the mass shooting at Brown University admitted in a video before his death that he had planned the shooting “for a long time.”
On Dec. 18, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man accused of the Brown University shooting and killing an MIT professor, was found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
During a search of the storage facility, authorities recovered Neves Valente’s electronic device.
On the device, there were multiple videos taken by Neves Valente after the Brown shooting, in which the DOJ said he “admitted that he had been planning the Brown University shooting for a long time.”
On Tuesday, the DOJ released transcripts of the videos, which show Neves Valente admitting that the university was his “intended target,” according to the DOJ.
However, he did not provide a motive for either shooting.
Officials said Neves Valente showed “no remorse” in the video and “blamed innocent, unarmed children for their deaths at his hand.”
Additionally, he “grumbled about a self-inflicted injury he suffered when he shot the MIT professor at close range,” the DOJ said.
The transcript of the videos also quotes Valente as saying he isn’t sure why people thought he shouted “Allah Akbar” in the auditorium during the Brown shooting, saying he doesn’t remember saying anything at all.
“So, if you don’t like it, tough luck. Tough luck. There was also a lot of s— that I did not like, and I had to put up with it.”
“I’ve been here without caring for a very long time now. To say that I was extraordinarily satisfied, no, but I also don’t regret what I did.” @ABC6
— Ryan Medeiros (@RRyanmedeiros) January 6, 2026
Authorities said there is no ongoing threat to the public, and Neves Valente’s motives remain under investigation.
