Brown Shooting Footage Released as Motive Remains Unknown (Full Transcript)
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: This is Brown Police. We have confirmed gunshots at 184 Hope Street.
[00:00:04] Speaker 2: Police body camera footage and 911 calls from the shooting at Brown University were released to the public on Monday.
[00:00:11] Speaker 3: As of right now, we have no information as to where this person might be, so we're going to consider that this is still active.
[00:00:18] Speaker 2: The shooting inside the campus engineering building left two students dead and wounded nine others.
[00:00:24] Speaker 1: We have a suspect description wearing all black and a ski mask.
[00:00:29] Speaker 2: Two days later, the suspected shooter, 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, fatally shot an MIT professor who had attended the same school in Portugal as Neves Valente, according to authorities. Neves Valente was found dead by suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit on December 18th.
[00:00:46] Speaker 4: If there's one big outstanding question, it's why did these poor kids get targeted by someone? None of the camera footage will answer that question.
- Body camera footage and 911 calls from the Brown University shooting were made public.
- The shooting in the engineering building killed two students and injured nine others.
- Police initially treated the situation as active with an at-large suspect described as wearing all black and a ski mask.
- Authorities later named 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente as the suspected shooter.
- Two days later, Neves Valente allegedly killed an MIT professor with a connection through schooling in Portugal.
- Neves Valente was found dead by suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit on December 18.
- The motive for the Brown University attack remains unclear.