PROVIDENCE — A new video released by the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office Wednesday shows the moment a gunman fled campus after a shooting last month that killed two students and injured nine others.
The shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was found dead days after the shooting in a storage unit in Salem, N.H., from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In the video, Valente is recorded on a dash camera from a Brown University shuttle vehicle walking through a parking lot near Barus and Holley, which is the physics and engineering building where the shooting took place.
Valente had one hand in his pocket while he walked into a residential neighborhood.
The Dec. 13 shooting killed Ella Cook, a sophomore, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, a freshman.
The end of the video shows police cruisers with their lights on, rushing toward Barus and Holley.
The shooting led to a frantic six-day manhunt to identify and track down Valente.
Valente, a Portuguese native, first moved to the United States in 2000 to pursue a doctorate in physics at Brown. His former classmates described him in interviews as an ill-tempered young man who believed that even an American Ivy League college was no match for his own intellect. During his time at Brown, he complained that classes were too easy, and he left the school just months after enrolling.
Valente confessed to the shooting and the killing of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, an MIT professor, in four videos that were recovered by law enforcement after Valente’s death. Valente expressed no remorse and offered little explanation for his violence, according to transcripts of those videos.
The video was first reported by ABC News.
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