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Tuesday, January 06, 2026
Brown University mass shooter planned for months and left videos, officials say

The man suspected of killing two students at Brown University and fatally shooting an MIT professor days later recorded a series of short videos after the violence that provided no clear motive and suggested he'd spent significant time planning, federal officials said.

In released transcripts of the videos, Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, appeared to say he had been planning the violence for at least six semesters.

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