Shooter who killed Brown students, MIT professor had been planning for months and left videos, officials say

The man suspected of killing two students at Brown University and fatally shooting a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later recorded a series of short videos after the violence that provided no clear motive and suggested he’d spent significant time planning, federal officials said Tuesday

The man suspected of killing two students at Brown University and fatally shooting a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later recorded a series of short videos after the violence that provided no clear motive and suggested he’d spent significant time planning, federal officials said Tuesday.

In transcripts of the videos released by the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts, Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, said he did not hate the United States and complained about an eye injury that he said he suffered from a shell round. He appeared to say he had been planning the violence for at least six semesters, and he said no one had ever sincerely apologized to him in his lifetime.

“The world cannot be redeemed,” he added, according to the transcripts.

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown University shooting, picks up a vehicle at an Alamo Rent A Car in a still from security video released Dec. 18 in an affidavit by Providence police.Providence police via ReutersThe four videos were recovered from the New Hampshire storage unit where Neves Valente was found dead on Dec. 18, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Authorities said he opened fire inside a Brown auditorium on Dec. 13, wounding nine students and killing two — Ella Cook, 19, an Alabama native and vice president of a college Republican group, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, a native of Uzbekistan who relatives said dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.