Lengthy grudge motivated Brown mass shooting, MIT professor killing: Sources
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Key Points:
- Claudio Valente, a former Brown University graduate student, carried out a mass shooting at Brown's engineering and physics building on Dec. 13, killing two students and injuring nine others, before fatally shooting MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home.
- Valente recorded a video in Portuguese explaining that he had been planning the Brown University attack for a long time and identified Brown as his intended target.
- The U.S. Attorney's Office stated that Valente showed no remorse in the recordings, blaming the victims and expressing frustration over a self-inflicted injury sustained during the MIT shooting.
- Valente died by suicide before being apprehended, with his body found in a New Hampshire storage facility after a six-day manhunt
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