'I Don’t Care, It’s All Over': MIT Professor's Killer Recorded Video Manifesto Before Taking His Own Life

BROOKLINE, MA — The Department of Justice released transcripts of multiple video messages recorded by Claudio Neves Valente on Tuesday, the person responsible for the December shootings of MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro and multiple Brown University students.

The videos were reportedly recorded just before Valente took his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a unit at Extra Space Storage in Salem, New Hampshire. The messages were translated from Valente’s native Portuguese. In the first video, Valente said he was not “extraordinarily” satisfied with what he did, but that he had no regrets.

“I don’t care, It’s all over. Now it’s my time to leave, on my own terms,” the transcript reads. “I am not going to apologize, because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me.”

Valente also referenced an eye injury he had from an apparent bullet shell casing that occurred while he was committing the crimes. In addition, he lamented that he would soon be found by authorities due to his vehicle being nearby and surveillance footage of him entering the storage facility.
In the second video, which is the shortest, Valente alludes to both crimes and hints at a motivation for both, however does not give any further detail.

“In these two instances, I needed a catalyst for both of them,” the transcript reads. “But for the first one, it was the fact that I was confronted, and in the second, I also had one, you could say, a little bit.”
In the final two videos, Lourerio’s shooting is never again directly referenced, according to the transcripts.

“I already know that you are going to say that I am mentally ill… that is all nonsense,” the third video’s transcript reads.

The fourth included some new details about Valente’s rampage at the University, however a clear motive for either act was never clearly stated.

Valente is a Portuguese national whose last known address was in Miami, Florida. He first came to Massachusetts at the end of November, according to officials. At that time, he rented a hotel room in Boston as well as a gray Nissan Sentra.

The 48-year-old gunned down Loureiro at his home in Brookline on Monday, Dec. 15, two days after the Brown University shooting. Officials didn't immediately announce a link between the two incidents but as the investigation unfolded, authorities traced the suspect to the New Hampshire storage unit Thursday. Valente and Loureiro both studied physics at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal at the same time more than 25 years ago. United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley said that the pair did know each other, however the extent of the relationship is not known. Valente was terminated from a position at Instituto Superior Técnico in 2000.