Shooter who killed MIT professor and Brown students planned attack for months, DOJ says
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Key Points:
- Claudio Neves Valente, identified as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor, had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
- Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after the shootings on December 13 and 15.
- The FBI recovered videos from an electronic device in which Valente admitted to planning the Brown University shooting for a long time but did not provide a clear motive for targeting the victims.
- In the recordings, Valente expressed no remorse, stating he had nothing to apologize for and that his goal was to die on his own terms without suffering the
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