US releases video transcripts of man believed to be Brown University shooter | Brown University shooting
US Department of Justice released video transcripts The man is believed to have killed two people at Brown University on December 13 and an MIT professor two days later. In the videos, the attacker explains how long he planned to attack the university campus.
The attacker was a former Brown student and Portuguese national who law enforcement officers found dead at a storage facility in New Hampshire days after the shootings. Along with his body, investigators found an “electronic device” containing video recordings made by the suspected shooter, which the justice department translated from Portuguese to English and made public.
According to the press release, the attacker admits in the recordings that he “had been planning to shoot at Brown University for a long time.” He offered no justification for targeting Brown or the MIT professor with whom he went to school in Portugal decades ago.
Brown University president Christina Paxson said the shooter was enrolled at Brown from fall 2000 to spring 2001. He was accepted to graduate school to study physics starting in September 2000. “He has no affiliation with the university at this time,” Paxson said.
In the recording, the attacker says that he has owned the warehouse where his body will be found for about three years. He adds that he feels there is nothing to apologize for. In the videos, he also complains that his eye was injured in the shootings.
On December 13, the gunman arrived on Brown’s campus, killing two students and wounding nine others in a classroom in the school’s engineering building. Days later, he went to the MIT professor’s home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and shot him.
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, searched for the shooter for five days before authorities found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, located about 40 (65 km) north of Brookline and 80 miles north of Brown University.
The two students killed were identified by their families as Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek citizen in his first year at Brown. Nine people were injured in Brown’s attack. The MIT professor was a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist named Nuno FG Loureiro.
