• Claudio Neves Valente confessed to planning the Brown University shooting for over six semesters.
• He recorded videos expressing no remorse and rejecting any need to apologize.
• Victims included two Brown students and an MIT professor whom Valente knew from Portugal.
• The shooter expressed vague grievances and provided no clear motive.
• Valente ended his life after the killings, followed by a six-day manhunt.

A shocking sequence of events unfolded when Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown University student, executed a mass shooting on December 13, which left two students dead and nine others injured. He later killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, whom he had known from their mutual academic past in Portugal. The violence began in an engineering building at Brown University and culminated in Loureiro's murder in his Brookline home just two days later, according to ABC News and South China Morning Post.

In a series of recently released confessional videos recorded prior to his death, Valente admitted that he had been planning the attack for over six semesters, yet he provided no concrete motive for targeting the university or Loureiro. Valente's statements were characterized by a distinct lack of remorse; he maintained he had “nothing to apologize for,” even blaming the victims, according to transcripts published by Reuters and CBS News.

Valente's commentary in the videos reveals insight into his mindset; he expressed no regrets regarding his actions but lamented an injury he suffered from a cartridge casing during the shootings. He repeatedly stated his aim was to leave on “his own terms,” framing the murders as an intentional, if “incompetent,” act, as detailed by both India Times and BBC.

Valente was found dead on December 18 in a New Hampshire storage facility after a multistate manhunt, with federal investigators recovering the videos during a search. His insights on the public perception of his actions, coupled with his dismissive comment that he “don’t give a damn” about public judgments, highlight a concerning detachment from the severity of his crimes, as reported by India Times and India Times.