MIT and Higher Education

Federal prosecutors released translated confession videos from Claudio Manuel Neves‑Valente in which he says he planned the Brown University attack for semesters, expresses no remorse, denies mental‑illness or ideological motives and gives no clear rationale; investigators say he also killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro and was later found dead by suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit, with ballistics tying separate pistols to the two slayings. The disclosures have intensified scrutiny of Brown’s security and emergency response — prompting a Department of Education review, an external after‑action assessment, the campus public‑safety chief’s administrative leave and plans for more cameras, card access and other measures after criticism that limited surveillance, delayed alerts and reports that the suspect had been “casing” buildings hampered the response.