Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspect in the deadly December shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days later, left behind videos in which he allegedly described planning the Brown attack, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Investigators executed a federal search warrant on Dec. 18, 2025, at a storage facility Neves Valente, 48, used, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release issued Tuesday, Jan. 6. During the search, authorities reported finding a series of short videos recorded after the shootings.
In the recordings, Neves Valente allegedly said he had been planning the Brown University shooting for a long time, the press release states. While he reportedly described Brown as his intended target, officials said an initial review of the evidence did not reveal a specific motive for targeting Brown students or the MIT professor.
Two people were killed and nine others were injured in the Brown University shooting on Dec. 13, 2025. The victims were identified as Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, 19…