“To say that I was extraordinarily satisfied, no, but I also don’t regret what I did.” Reuters Victims and Violence On 13 December 2025, Valente walked into an engineering building at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he fatally shot two students — Ella Cook (19) and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov (18) — and wounded nine others. Two days later, he is alleged to have traveled to Brookline, Massachusetts, where he killed MIT physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a former classmate from Portugal. Reuters Valente’s video reflections showed no clear motive for targeting either the Brown students or the MIT professor. Prosecutors said that although he chose Brown University as his intended location, he did not state a specific reason for the attacks in the transcripts. Reuters Ongoing Investigation and Public Safety Authorities, including the FBI, say they do not believe there is any ongoing threat tied to these shootings. The investigation continues as officials work to piece together more details about Valente’s motives and background. Reuters – Firstpost

Federal prosecutors have released translated transcripts of videos they say were recorded by the man responsible for the deadly Brown University campus shooting and the later killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor.

The videos, recovered by authorities after the attacker’s death, reveal chilling admissions about his long-planned attack, lack of remorse and personal perspective on what he did.

Investigators say
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University student, recorded the videos in Portuguese. The Department of Justice then had them translated before releasing the transcripts on Tuesday. Valente was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility days after the shootings.

Planning and admissions in the transcripts

In the translated recordings, Valente openly acknowledged that he had been preparing for the Brown attack for “six semesters”, saying he had already been thinking about the violence for a long time.

Prosecutors called the videos a form of confession because he admitted to carrying out the crimes and detailed his long premeditation.

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Valente also addressed beliefs about his mental state. He denied having a mental illness and insisted he was “sane”, rejecting suggestions that illness had driven him to act. He spoke about the shootings without remorse, appearing to reject apologies and expressing what officials described as a chilling perspective on the events.

In the transcripts, he said: “To say that I was extraordinarily satisfied, no, but I also don’t regret what I did.”

On 13 December 2025, Valente walked into an engineering building at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he fatally shot two students — Ella Cook (19) and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov (18) — and wounded nine others. Two days later, he is alleged to have travelled to Brookline, Massachusetts, where he killed MIT physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a former classmate from Portugal.

Prosecutors said that although he chose Brown University as his intended location, he did not state a specific reason for the attacks in the transcripts.

Authorities, including the FBI, say they do not believe there is any ongoing threat tied to these shootings.