DOJ Says Brown Shooter Planned Attack For Years

January 7, 2026 4:54 am

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years. Claudio Neves Valente was a former Brown student and Portuguese national. He was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility Dec. 18. He left behind videos confessing to the murders but gave no motive. In the recordings Neves Valente admitted to planning the attack for at least six semesters. He expressed no remorse and called his actions “a little incompetent.” The shootings occurred Dec. 13 and 15.