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BOSTON — <\/span>The man identified as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor<\/a> planned the attack for years and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders but gave no motive, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n Claudio Neves Valente<\/a>, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on Dec. 13. Two days later he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline.<\/p>\n Justice Department officials said Tuesday that during the search of the storage facility where Neves Valente\u2019s body was found<\/a> on Dec. 18, the FBI recovered an electronic device containing a series of short videos made by Neves Valente after the shootings.<\/p>\n In the recordings, the shooter admitted in Portuguese that he had been working out details for at least six semesters. He did not give a motive for targeting Brown or the professor, with whom he attended school in Portugal decades ago. <\/p>\n In an English-translated transcript provided by the Justice Department, Neves Valente said he felt he had nothing to apologize for. He also complained in the videos about injuring his eye in the shootings.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to apologize because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He explicitly addressed baseless claims spread by conservative influencer Laura Loomer after the attack that the Brown shooter had spoken in Arabic, saying something like \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d upon entering the auditorium.<\/p>\n Neves Valente said he did not speak a word of Arabic or intend to make any kind of statement. If he said anything, he \u201cmust have made an exclamation like, \u2018Oh no!\u2019 or something like that,\u201d to express disappointment that the auditorium appeared to be empty when he entered, he said. Students were hiding under desks, but Neves Valente thought they\u2019d already escaped through an emergency exit.<\/p>\n \u201cI never wanted to do it in an auditorium. I wanted to do it in a regular room,\u201d he said. \u201cI had plenty of opportunities. Especially this semester, I had plenty of opportunities, but I always chickened out.\u201d<\/p>\n He insisted he was not mentally ill. He said he did not want to be famous and the video was not a manifesto.<\/p>\n Neves Valente said his \u201conly objective was to leave more or less\u201d on his \u201cown terms\u201d and to ensure he \u201cwouldn\u2019t be the one who ended up suffering the most from all this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, that cannot happen. So if you don\u2019t like it, tough luck,\u201d he said. Neves Valente called his execution of the murders \u201ca little incompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut at least something was done,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Neves Valente wounded nine people and killed two students: Sophomore Ella Cook, 19, and 18-year-old freshman MukhammadAziz Umurzokov.<\/p>\n Two days later, authorities say, Neves Valente fatally shot Loureiro<\/a>. Valente and Loureiro attended the same academic program at a university in Portugal between 1995 and 2000. Loureiro graduated from the physics program at Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, that country’s premier engineering school, in 2000, according to his MIT faculty page. The same year Neves Valente was let go from a position at the Lisbon university, according to an archive of a termination notice from the school\u2019s then-president in February 2000.<\/p>\n In the recording he said he had the storage space where his body was found for about three years. <\/p>\n Brown University said in a statement Tuesday that \u201cthe gravity of this tragedy continues to weigh heavily on the full Brown University community” and that they continue to mourn the deaths of the two students and pray for the full recovery of those who were injured.<\/p>\n Neves Valente mentioned his confrontation with a witness<\/a> at Brown that ultimately led to his identification days later. <\/p>\n