U.S. Attorney’s Office Releases Transcript of Brown Mass Shooter’s Confession
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U.S. Attorney’s Office Releases Transcript of Brown Mass Shooter’s Confession
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As part of the investigation on Dec. 18, 2025, investigators executed a federal search warrant at a storage facility used by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the Portuguese national responsible for the senseless murders. During the search of the storage facility, the FBI recovered an electronic device containing a series of short videos made by Neves Valente after the shootings.
Tuesday, the Department of Justice is releasing the transcripts of these videos, which have been translated from Portuguese to English. They have not released the videos.
In these videos, Neves Valente admitted that he had been planning the Brown University shooting for a long time. Although Neves Valente stated that Brown University was his intended target, based on the initial review of the evidence collected, he did not provide a motive for targeting students at Brown University or the professor at MIT. Neves Valente showed no remorse during the recordings; on the contrary, he exposed his true nature when he blamed innocent, unarmed children for their deaths at his hand and grumbled about a self-inflicted injury he suffered when he shot the MIT professor at close range. Our investigation into the motives behind Neves Valente’s heinous acts will continue, said the Department of Justice.
Based on the evidence seized and analyzed to date, authorities do not believe there are any ongoing public safety threats associated with the shootings. Additional updates will be provided as further information is developed and following appropriate victim notification.
TRANSCRIPT FROM VIDEO ONE By Claudio Manuel Neves Valente
Okay, [sighs] as you can see, my eye is kind of fucked up. It is a shell round, bounced there. I don't know if there are any kind of implications on the success of what I wanted to do or not ... Uhm [pause] It is- done. It was, it was six months, man. Not six months, six semesters. Uh ... I had already planned this for a little more. It seems that I'm starting to see a bit better out of my eye, but very little or almost nothing. The time for the final conclusions has arrived. The time for the final conclusions has arrived. Uhm, it was all a little incompetent but at least something was done. The only objective was to [pause] leave more or less on my own terms, and--and it's--it's ah-eady long overdue. And at least leave [pause] that I wasn't--wouldn't be the one who ended up suffering the most from all of this. No, that cannot happen. So, if you don't like it, tough luck. Tough luck. There was also a lot of shit that I did not like, and I had to put up with it. So, what has been done now ... I'm in a storage space in Salem, I've had this here for three years, I think. I still have money. I would have money for a few more good years, if it was in Portugal or a cheaper place it would still be a long time, but I don't care. I've been here ... I've been here without caring for a very long time now. To say that I was extraordinarily satisfied, no, but I also don't regret what I did. Honestly, my only regret is this thing in the eye [laughs]. But it was really hard, man. I really have far·—far too much inertia. But since I was almost confronted by a guy there that day ... not almost, I actually was confronted and he knew my ... my ... my license plate, I honestly never thought it would take them so long to find me. But look, I did one more, basically, since I'm not sure; it was done at a relatively short distance and [pause] quickly, and I don't know exactly when I was hit in the eye, so I don't know exactly ... I hope that at least the first one hit. I don't know. I don't care. It's all over. Now it's my time to leave, on my own terms. [sighs] And [pause] what else? I am not going to apologize, because during my lifetime, no one sincerely apologized to me.
Uhm, the few times there was an appearance that it had happened, I later had access, uhm, to the people privately, the conversations we had privately showed it was all fake. Uhm [pause] so they are not going to get anything from me. I did not like any one of you. I saw all of this shit from the beginning. I began to grow suspicious since I barely had conscious memories, at the age of three. At the age of five, I was already sure. I saw all of this shit from the beginning, with a few exceptions, and [pause] I had hoped it would be negotiable, as a matter of competence, morality. That's why I was a good guy on every level; not always, but almost always, and--and, no. It isn't--there isn't--there isn't any type... it's completely non-negotiable. So go fuck yourselves, to hell with you.
Three e-mails should go out today, tonight, people will receive them, basically. I'm not saying anything else. And the thing is with this eye situation, I even thought about doing it with glasses on, and then at the last moment I thought: no, because the glasses fog up, this is at close range, [UI]. I was stupid. If I had done it, it wouldn't have... but I also have no interest whatsoever in staying here. That's it. [UI]. I also have no interest in being famous. I don't give a damn about how you judge me or what you think of me. The overwhelming majority of things that are going to be said, I can already imagine. In fact, I was already reading, uhm, I particularly like Trump's shit, to have--have called me an animal, which is true. I am an animal and he is also, but uhm, I have no love--I have no hatred towards America, I also have no hatred at all. This was an issue of... of opportunity. I would really like to thank you for the only opportunity that you gave me here, which was this one, and... and look, that's it. I don't have anything else to say. We are finished. I did not think it would be exactly on these terms, nor was I planning to come here, but this is an isolated place, I hope to stay here for at least a few good hours without... without being found. Even though the stupid car is outside, and obviously there is a record of my entry, and there are cameras and shit, but it will probably be a few good hours, so, the longer I stay here, the better. Let's see if I've got the balls to do this to myself now, because it was hard as hell to do it to all of these people, man. It was hard as hell. I envy those who are born, by nat--by nature or not, or because of... I envy those who have no difficulty doing it, and these people exist. That's what I really envy. The rest means nothing to me. Let's see if I have the courage. It's 10:00 PM, and that's it. [video ends]