Brown shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente video transcripts released
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released transcripts of short videos they said were recorded by the gunman responsible for the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Massachusetts.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said when investigators executed a federal search warrant on Dec. 18, 2025, they found an electronic device containing the videos in a storage facility used by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, whom authorities described as the “Portuguese national responsible for senseless murders.”
Prosecutors said the videos were recorded in Portuguese and later translated into English. In the recordings, Neves Valente described the attack as the result of long planning.
“It’s over. It was six months, man. Not six months, six terms. Uh. I already planned this for a little bit longer,” he said in one video, according to transcripts.
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Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts released this photo showing the man identified in the fatal shootings of Brown University students in Rhode Island and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in Massachusetts. (Ministry of Justice)
Authorities said Neves Valente identified Brown University as a target but did not give a reason for shooting at students at Brown or killing 47-year-old MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. Prosecutors said that the investigation will continue for this reason.
Authorities said two Brown students, Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed and nine others were injured in a shooting attack on the Providence, Rhode Island campus on December 13. Just two days later, Loureiro, a professor at MIT, was murdered in Brookline.
In the transcript, Neves Valente repeatedly refused to express regret.
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“So, what’s been done now… I’m in a warehouse in Salem, I think I’ve been here three years. I still have money…. I’m not going to apologize, because no one has ever sincerely apologized to me in my entire life.” He also denied that the culprit was mentally ill, saying: “This is all nonsense—-excuse.”
“I… I’m sane,” he said. “I always was, more or less [sane]”
Neves Valente also said President Donald Trump “was right to call me an animal, that’s true.”
“I’m an animal and so is he, but, um, I don’t have love; I don’t have hatred for America, I don’t even have hatred. It was a matter of…opportunity.”
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Despite his role as Brown University’s highest governing authority with direct authority over presidential oversight and long-term strategy, the board of trustees declined to comment in the wake of the killings, which revealed serious gaps in campus security. (Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Prosecutors said Neves Valente “showed no remorse” during the recordings and blamed the victims for the deaths.
In the transcript, he criticized people’s reactions during the shooting, saying, “Because they were a little stupid.”
He also rejected how the world would view him after committing a mass shooting on his college campus.
“I don’t care how you judge me or what you think of me,” he said, “And I’m not interested in being famous.”
Footage of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente is shown on a projector screen at a news briefing in Providence, Rhode Island. The 48-year-old former student and Portuguese national has been identified as the gunman behind the mass shooting that killed two students and injured nine others. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)
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Throughout the transcript, he focused on his injury, saying: “As you can see, my eye is damaged somewhat.”
Neves Valente said he was injured by what he called a “bullet bullet” that “jumped” into his eye.
Split image showing multiple still frames from surveillance video of the person of interest before and after the school shooting near Brown University. (FBI Boston)
An autopsy had previously revealed that Neves Valente died by suicide two days before his body was found in a warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire.
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Officials said Tuesday they do not believe there remains any public safety threat related to the shootings and that additional updates will be provided.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
