Justice department translated recordings made in Portuguese by man believed to be behind killings
The man accused of killing an MIT professor and two students at Brown University left behind video recordings in which he says he had planned the attack for years, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
The shooter in the 13 and 15 December attacks was a former Brown student and Portuguese national, whom law enforcement found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility days after the shootings.
Authorities said on Tuesday that along with his body, investigators found “an electronic device” with short video recordings, which the justice department translated from Portuguese to English.
In the recordings, the shooter says that he had been planning the attack for six semesters, according to the transcript. He did not provide a motive for targeting Brown or the MIT professor, with whom he attended school in Portugal decades earlier.
