Murders at American universities | The suspect confessed to his crimes in a video

(New York) The man suspected of killing two students at the American Brown University and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) confessed to his crimes in a video recorded after the fact without detailing his motivations, American authorities announced Tuesday.

The US Department of Justice said it found a video of the suspect confessing to his crimes during a search of the storage container where he ended his life.

Claudio Neves Valente opened fire in Brown’s engineering and physics building, where exams were being held. Two students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, died and nine others were injured.

He then went to the Boston (Massachusetts) area, some 80 kilometers away, to the home of a renowned MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro, killing the man with whom he had studied in his youth.

Mr. Neves Valente came to the United States from Portugal 25 years ago to study physics at Brown – but did not graduate, according to the university.

For several days, a manhunt had been launched to find the author of the murders, with President Donald Trump calling the shooter an “animal” in front of journalists.

“I especially like the idea that Trump called me an animal, which is true. I’m an animal and he is too, but I don’t have love – I don’t have hatred for America,” he said, according to the Justice Department’s Portuguese transcript of the video.

He did not reveal the motivations behind the attacks, but complained that he was injured during the killings.

He “admitted that he had been planning the Brown University shootings for a long time,” the Justice Department said.

“Although Mr. Neves Valente has stated that Brown was the target, based on initial reviews of the evidence collected, he has not given a motive for targeting students at Brown or an MIT professor. He showed little remorse in the recordings,” he continues.

The video has not been made public.

“The only goal was to leave more or less on my own terms,” Mr. Neves Valente said in the video according to the transcript, adding that he had several opportunities to carry out his plan, but that he “always chickened out.”