Suspected Brown-MIT gunman left unapologetic video confessions after shootings, DOJ says

Published January 6, 2026 11:41pm ET



The suspect allegedly responsible for both the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT professor left four confessional videos on a device after he carried out the shootings.

The FBI found the device after a nearly weeklong manhunt inside the storage locker where the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Department of Justice released a transcript of the videos on Tuesday, translating Neves Valente’s words from Portuguese to English.

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