Brown University shooting videos show awareness and planning, experts say

Federal investigators are continuing to portion unneurotic the December shootings that killed 2 Brown University students and an MIT professor, leaving 9 others wounded, authorities said.

Authorities connected Tuesday released transcripts of videos they accidental were recorded by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the antheral liable for the Brown University wide shooting and the sidesplitting of an MIT physicist.

Two Brown students, Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed successful the Dec. 13 shooting connected the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, and 9 different radical were wounded, authorities said. Just 2 days later, Nuno Loureiro, a prof astatine MIT, was killed successful Brookline, Mass.

As of the latest update, 8 of the students injured astatine Brown had been released from the hospital, portion 1 idiosyncratic remained hospitalized.

Federal prosecutors successful Massachusetts released this representation showing the antheral identified successful the deadly shootings of Brown University students successful Rhode Island and a prof from MIT. (Justice Department)

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According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, investigators executed a national hunt warrant connected Dec. 18 astatine a retention installation utilized by Neves Valente, a Portuguese national. The FBI recovered an physics instrumentality containing respective abbreviated videos recorded aft the shootings. Transcripts of those videos, translated from Portuguese to English, were released Tuesday.

In the recordings, prosecutors said Neves Valente admitted helium had been readying the Brown shooting for a agelong clip and said Brown was his intended target. Authorities said helium did not supply a motive for targeting Brown students oregon the MIT professor.

Investigators said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced the weapon utilized successful the shootings arsenic portion of the investigation.

Officials person not publically released details astir the weapon’s root oregon acquisition history. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the FBI for comment.

Split representation showing Brown University victims Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, alongside MIT prof Nuno Loureiro, who was killed. (Instagram/elinacoutlakis/GoFundMe/Jake Belcher for MIT)

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Josh Schirard, a erstwhile tactical exigency effect manager astatine the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting and manager of Byrna Law Enforcement, said the transcripts corroborate work for the onslaught but connection small clarity astir wherefore it occurred.

"He understood what helium did. He understood that helium had a wherefore down it," Schirard said. "He conscionable didn’t opine connected wherefore that was."

Schirard said the shooter rejected ideological explanations and denied being mentally ill.

Investigators tow distant the Nissan Sentra utilized by Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, Salem, N.H., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

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"He adjacent says, ‘I’m not mentally ill. I americium precise sane, and I did this knowing what I was doing,’" Schirard said.

"He talks astir however sidesplitting those radical was hard," Schirard said, adding that the shooter said helium envied radical who could bash truthful "without difficulty."

A divided representation shows Claudio Neves-Valente, identified arsenic the Brown University gunman, wearing the aforesaid overgarment arsenic a antheral identified earlier arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the case. (Providence Police Department)

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An autopsy antecedently found Neves Valente died by termination 2 days earlier his assemblage was discovered successful a retention portion in Salem, New Hampshire.

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Authorities said they bash not judge determination is immoderate ongoing nationalist information menace associated with the shootings and that further updates volition beryllium provided.