Suspect in Brown University, MIT Shootings Confessed on Video Before Suicide: DOJ

In the videos, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente showed no remorse for the attack, according to the Justice Department.

Photos of Brown University shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov (L) and Ella Cook are seen among flowers at a memorial at the school's Van Wickle Gates in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 17, 2025. Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo

The suspect in the killings of two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor left behind video confessions before dying by suicide in a storage facility, the Justice Department (DOJ) said on Jan. 6.

In the videos, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and former Brown student, showed no remorse for the Dec. 13, 2025, shooting at Brown University—which left two students dead and nine others injured—and for the Dec. 15, 2025, fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home near Boston.