A former Brown University student who carried out the deadly shootings of two students and an MIT professor last month had been planning the attack for years, according to video transcripts obtained by authorities.
The suspect, identified as a Portuguese national, was found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire with an electronic device containing short videos. The Department of Justice translated the recordings from Portuguese, revealing that the shooter claimed to have planned the attacks for six semesters, leaving no clear motive or explanation for his targeting of Brown University or the MIT professor.
The Brown University president confirmed that the suspect was enrolled at the university between 2000 and 2001, where he studied physics. However, officials made it clear that the student had no current affiliation with the institution.
In one of the recordings, the shooter appears to take responsibility for his actions, describing his motivations as somewhat self-serving. He expressed regret over injuring his own eye during the shootings but denied any mental health issues or a desire for notoriety.
The suspect's only stated objective was to "leave more or less" on his own terms and minimize his own suffering in the aftermath of the attacks. While he acknowledged that his execution of the murders was "a little incompetent," he claimed that at least some action had been taken as a result.
Over the course of five days, law enforcement searched for the suspect before discovering him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the storage facility. Two students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, were killed, while nine others were injured during the attack on December 13 at Brown University. The MIT professor, Nuno FG Loureiro, was shot days later at his home in Massachusetts.
The motive behind the killings remains unclear, with no apparent connection between the suspect and the victims.
The suspect, identified as a Portuguese national, was found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire with an electronic device containing short videos. The Department of Justice translated the recordings from Portuguese, revealing that the shooter claimed to have planned the attacks for six semesters, leaving no clear motive or explanation for his targeting of Brown University or the MIT professor.
The Brown University president confirmed that the suspect was enrolled at the university between 2000 and 2001, where he studied physics. However, officials made it clear that the student had no current affiliation with the institution.
In one of the recordings, the shooter appears to take responsibility for his actions, describing his motivations as somewhat self-serving. He expressed regret over injuring his own eye during the shootings but denied any mental health issues or a desire for notoriety.
The suspect's only stated objective was to "leave more or less" on his own terms and minimize his own suffering in the aftermath of the attacks. While he acknowledged that his execution of the murders was "a little incompetent," he claimed that at least some action had been taken as a result.
Over the course of five days, law enforcement searched for the suspect before discovering him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the storage facility. Two students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, were killed, while nine others were injured during the attack on December 13 at Brown University. The MIT professor, Nuno FG Loureiro, was shot days later at his home in Massachusetts.
The motive behind the killings remains unclear, with no apparent connection between the suspect and the victims.
. Six semesters of planning, but what did he even achieve? Leaving a mark on his own terms? It sounds like just an excuse for himself, if you ask me 
. I mean, who tries to justify hurting innocent people by saying it was "a little incompetent"? That's just cold 
. And the fact that he had no clear motive or connection to the victims is even more disturbing 
. It's like he just decided to take out a bunch of random targets and call it a day... What's the point of that? 
. The fact that he left no clear motive or explanation is even more haunting. It's like he was just randomizing his victims, like they were just pawns in some twisted game 
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. I mean, how many red flags were ignored? How many people suspected something was off, but nobody acted on it? It's like we all just stood around and watched while someone planned their own murder spree 
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. He planned those attacks for years, but it's weird that we still don't know what motivated him to target all those people 
. The fact that he claimed his actions were self-serving kinda freaks me out, you feel? Like, what kind of mindset makes someone think they can just go around killing people without any real purpose or reasoning 
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. I mean, I get that we don't know everyone's backstory, but it's hard not to wonder what could've been done differently to prevent this tragedy 
. Anyways, I guess we'll just have to keep trying to make sense of it all and hope that something like this never happens again 
. i feel like we're gettin' more info now but it's still pretty unclear what drove him to do such a thing... six semesters, huh? feels like he was just tryin' to make some kinda statement or somethin', but without any clear motive 
. just hope that his family and friends are doin' okay with this loss 
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his excuse about wanting to leave on his own terms kinda sounds selfish lol but seriously, who does that? 
at least he admitted it was incompetent tho 
anyway, my heart goes out to the families of Ella & MukhammadAziz 
... it's crazy that someone had been planning this for six semesters, but there's just no clear motive or explanation 
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at least he was honest about not wanting any attention, but now his victims' families are left with all this unanswered questions... it's just so frustrating that we'll never know for sure why he did it 
yeah I know it sounds weird but sometimes those little details can be super telling about someone's mental state 
anyway, what really gets me is how he seemed to be thinking about leaving a legacy or something 
and the fact that no one knows who he was affiliated with or why he targeted those specific places 
it's just so frustrating because we're still missing pieces of the puzzle 