December 19, 2025
"Authorities were finally able to crack the case open after a man posted on Reddit that cops should investigate a possible rented gray Nissan with Florida plates that he spotted in Providence while having an odd interaction with a man."
I'm reading "'Heinous' suspect in Brown, MIT shootings ‘should never have been allowed in our country,’ says Noem" (NY Post).
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It’s still quite odd. If he was a migrant worthy of Noem’s scorn he would have acted defiant of our laws rather than offing himself…or did someone else do that?
…and kudos to Brown and the authorities in Rhode Island for allowing the rest of the world to see your cluelessness and arrogance. I swear the dancing cop must have held that whole mess together…
Brown University is in big trouble. Students will transfer in droves. Three large wrongful death payments. Other PI payments to the kids in the classroom.
The only hero is the homeless guy who provided the info. He attended Brown. He should be named President.
The Mayor is worthless. All that self-congratulation at the press conferences. Thanking other worthless local governments. I couldn’t understand the chief of police.
He looks innocuous, maybe even benign. I don't have any negative feelings about Portugese physicists, and there doesn't seem to have been any compelling interest to deny him a visa.....He's not Muslim, and he killed a guy named Mukhammed. He doesn't look like a typical Trump supporter either. As an object of hate he's a bit of a disappointment for both the left and the right and for conspiracy theorists.......His schemes were obviously nefarious, but his plots were his own.
“The Mayor is worthless. All that self-congratulation at the press conferences. Thanking other worthless local governments. I couldn’t understand the chief of police.“
These self-congratulating press conferences annoy me to no end. It’s fine if the lead person takes a minute to appreciate all the groups of people involved, but it’s time-wasting that then each lead of every group gets to say the same damned we’re so great thing over the next 15-30 minutes. Makes my blood boil. Get to the important info already!!
Any Moors in Portugal?
Ok maybe I’m a little high strung at times lol.
Brown not only failed to protect their faculty and students before or after the crime, but their incompetence gave time for the killer to murder someone else at MIT. I don't know if the people stupid enough to pay money for Brown will leave, but I see no reason to hire from Brown.
each lead of every group gets to say the same damned we’re so great thing over the next 15-30 minutes. Makes my blood boil.
…this makes me recall when the authorities captured the tousle haired marathon bomber Tsarnaev hiding in a Watertown neighborhood. There must have been 100 people from various law enforcement teams walking out of the restricted area, first the military, then the elite federal units filing out stoically, then the staties, with some high fives, then finally all the local cops hooting and hollering like they just won the super bowl. They all seemed to have self sorted by IQ. I don’t recall if providence cops were there but they would have been last on the scale…
So a motive for shooting the students in the classroom, i think 10 seconds would have told him he was in the wrong room
How could he a rent a car buy a gun
I suspect the delay was because the powers that be at Brown University started crapping stones when they realized one of the victims was the VP of the Campus Republicans. Betting their emails and Slack channels are full of threats of violence against her. They needed time to scrub them.
I'm still leaning to the shooter starting his spree there because he either mistakenly assumed any class in that building at Brown was a physics class, or because he was most familiar with that building. Coincidences do happen.
It’s apparent that these crimes were the result of considerable planning.
My theory is that the killer was walking around the neighborhood near Brown before the shooting there because he was looking for a specific person who he didn’t find. That’s consistent with targeting and killing the MIT professor, who was shot and killed at his residence.
’These self-congratulating press conferences annoy me to no end.’
Totally agree. I’ve seen more humility at the Oscars.
Guy living in the basement of the engineering building? They found him on Reddit? This is bizarre
Another foreign soldier imported into the country and paid to attack the Democrat Party's enemies.
narciso said...
How could he a rent a car buy a gun
He would not have been able to buy a gun legally. He broke laws to get a gun.
Democrats believe that means we need to disarm Republicans.
Because their goal is not to stop gun violence.
It is to kill Republicans.
I'm so old I remember when the two cases "were in no way related" according to the DEI cop chief and the DEI university president.
Thats unclear as with much of this
Guy living in the basement of the engineering building? They found him on Reddit? This is bizarre
But the part about a Reddit user living in a basement is a little too [chef's kiss] on the nose, no?
I'm sympathetic to the view that any time an immigrant or foreign national commits a crime we should consider whether that person should have been allowed into the country, but in this case, I really think the main failure points are what looks like either the total incompetence of the local police or local police getting jerked around by Brown University leadership in CYA mode. I think it's possible Brown did their own preliminary investigation and were worried it was going to turn out to be a Hamasnik student or an illegal immigrant or someone who would reflect badly on the institution, and their somewhat shifty public communications were shaped by that concern. Better for the institution that the crime goes unsolved than that one of their own be implicated. Hence also the swiftness with which the name and information about the first (White, ex-military) person of interest was put about. I don't think they'd have been so cautious about sharing information if they had known it was going to turn out that it was a middle-aged European whose last formal connexion with the school was from 20 years ago.
Achilles-who-always-calls-me-stupid, green card holders can legally buy guns. Whether this guy bought his legally or illegally remains to be seen.
Congress should have an up or down vote on abolishing the DV1 immigration lottery. Explain how this program is good for America.
55,000 people are randomly chosen from a pool of applicants who wouldn't normally be granted permanent resident status.
They may be vetted, but again, how is that good for us?
But what about the important part of the news conference...was there a land acknowledgement at the beginning?
So the shooter did no internet research didnt look at the signs in engineering building were expected to believe that?
I don't see how the visa program has much relevance. The guy's been in the US for well over 20 years. His immigration status doesn't seem to have anything to do with whatever his motive was.
He was admitted under a program that was rife for abuse, that was nonetheless reinstated
Under that swamp weasel john kelley
Trump and Noem just cancelled the stupid "diversity lottery visa" program. Adults are in charge now.
Did you know he studied with the MIT victim 25-30 years ago in Portugal? Maybe his immigration status should have been examined instead of waived through in a diversity lottery that purposely picks people who "would not otherwise" be eligible.
That seems extremely relevant given the present circumstances and many victims.
Motive? It’s what’s for dinner?
We’ve gone from tranny shooters to immigrants shooters.
Question for Merrick Garland, where are white supremacist shooters? Are they toO busy attending school board meetings?
I refuse to believe that Diversity is not our strength.
Anyway, still puzzled why it was so easy for then killer to get on campus, and then get away without much trouble. Seems they were just lucky he didnt get on a bus to a faraway airport in the Mid-west and then fly back to an EU country.
Obviously, he a nuts. But we didn't know that.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
Achilles-who-always-calls-me-stupid, green card holders can legally buy guns. Whether this guy bought his legally or illegally remains to be seen.
Well isn't that interesting. The Uniparty created a way to import and arm foreign soldiers legally.
I agree to a new law. No guns for green card holders.
Now would be a good time to end these programs and start shipping more Democrat soldier out of the country.
He had been living in miami gardens in an house that rented for 1800 dollars
Reddit solves the crime? Brown University needs a head-to-toe reorganization and mass firing, starting with its idiot president earning $3.5 million and incapable of answering a single administrative question related to campus, classes, and occupants. Ditto with Providence police department.
Seems like the idea behind that lottery program must have been simply to give liberals the warm fuzzies about blessing some random foreigner with the gift of U.S. residency. It made no sense from a policy standpoint. If we're going to let in 55k aliens, let's at least do it on the basis of merit.
If a major newspaper can't even put Salem NH on the right side of the border with MA, maybe messes like this really are more the result of stupidity and laziness, rather than malice or conspiracy.
Biden and his vile(D) handlers - the gift that keeps on giving.
There's plenty of (legally actionable) blame to go around here. But I will say one very, very small thing in defense of the doofuses. When it was reported that the shooter had "yelled something" we all assumed it was the jihadi thing. Then, when that did not get leaked out, we assumed it was being covered up somehow. But just maybe, a lunatic yelling in Portuguese would be something nobody in the classroom would have picked up on.
We keep on getting new strains of murderous crazy. I did not for instance have "furrys" on my list of Usual Suspects prior to 2025. Sheesh, what next?
Its the least plausible scenario, chalk it up to incompetence on every side the shooter picking the wrong target the university not giving the studemts a modicum of safety
The lottery program may be ill-advised, but the fact that the guy was in the US via the lottery program rather than the "normal" visa program seems to be a red herring. We don't know whether there were any red flags that would have popped either way. On the surface, the guy appears to have been qualified for a visa before he was either radicalized or went around the bend. The facts that he studied physics at Brown in the early 2000's and studied physics in Lisbon with the MIT victim don't seem like disqualifications to me.
The storage facility actually straddles the border.
No guns for green card holders.
Is this what they mean by common sense gun control?
I just saw a story within the last few days about a city that was trying to basically outlaw neighborhood watch programs (because of course they're racist). Yet, lo and behold, this shooter was only caught because a neighbor was being a nosy Karen and practicing the ethos of "See something, say something." Good on him.
"Any Moors in Portugal?"
For a long time, no, but that may be changing.
Not sure why boatbuilder is stuck on this:
On the surface, the guy appears to have been qualified for a visa
Do you have evidence for that? The whole "diversity lottery" was to select applicants who did NOT qualify on the normal merits. So he was NOT qualified enough for the very lax system we had in 2000 by definition of being a DVL recipient.
So contra to your continued hypotheticals I would like the facts:
1. In what exact way was he NOT qualified enough for a normal visa?
2. What disqualifiers get waived for the DVL program specifically?
3. What other end-arounds have been engineered into our vast NGO-Immigration Industrial Complex that need exposure and expungement?
I figured since they knew the guys name on Wednesday, we'd have alot more info on the perp by now. Was he in the country illegally from 2001 to 2017 when he won the lottery? Does he have family here? Where did he live? What state?
Dogma and Pony Show got it right. A+
"I just saw a story within the last few days about a city that was trying to basically outlaw neighborhood watch programs (because of course they're racist)."
IIRC, it is Ann Arbor.
This whole thing is just weird.
If he bought the legally gun in Massachusetts, he had to have a state approved firearms ID card. I used to live there. So the state had to know.
The Mukhammed kid is from around this neck of the woods. Apparently he was not some religious fanatic, and was a pretty good kid. He graduated HS just this year, and he's all over the local news.
"So the state had to know."
Had to know what?
Uzbekistan is this neck of the woods?
So the Trump administration allowed him to stay in this country in 2017 so it's... Biden's fault
At least the murderer had the common decency to self deport
The program was suspended
Joe, for a high capacity pistol he would have needed a LTC. I don't think he lived in Massachesetts though, the news said his last known residence was Miami.
It will be interesting to see how this story for solving the crime holds up over the next 72 hours. For one thing, like a laser pointer with a cat, people seem more interested in discussing unrelated details rather than anything connecting a mass shooting, a homicide, and what we are told is a suicide that occurred in three different locations days apart. The only connection is hearsay testimony.
Well the motive for the brown shootings seems very tenuos
Why go there first did he do any research
I won't be drawn into the hate game. Despite this isolated occurrence, my opinion of Portuguese physicists remains unchanged. They're decent, hardworking people who don't deserve to be stigmatized by this one bad apple. We should all go out of our way to be nice to any Portuguese physicists in our field of acquaintance. This is a tough moment for them.
Was he perhaps a Scientologist or a Freemason? Maybe he was a marisco or a converso. He looks sort of straight, but he might be a Furry. Perhaps with further research, we can find sufficient cause to give him the hatred he deserves..........The Brown Administration seems inept, but parents and students rarely choose colleges based on their ability to investigate mass murders.
Is it so surprising that a homeless guy was on Reddit? Libraries are the second homes of the homeless, and libraries are America's version of the internet cafe.
Mayor Brett Smiley is way different from Mayor Buddy Cianci 40 years ago. Cianci was a thug and a crook, but he was at least an entity. There seems to be a manexit or mexit or malexit from urban politics. Pretty boys Frey and Mandani. Girl Boss Wu in Boston. The new mayor of Seattle. Former mayors Newsom in SF and Kaine in Richmond. Nobody seems tough enough to stand up to public employees' unions, let alone criminals and natural disasters.
We should all go out of our way to be nice to any Portuguese physicists in our field of acquaintance. This is a tough moment for them.
What terrifies me is what if Portuguese physicists were to detonate a bomb and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Portuguese physicists.
Lazarus said...
"We should all go out of our way to be nice to any Portuguese physicists in our field of acquaintance. This is a tough moment for them.
What terrifies me is what if Portuguese physicists were to detonate a bomb and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Portuguese physicists."
Give Norm MacDonald the credit he's due for that one (originally re Muslims).
Is it so surprising that a homeless guy was on Reddit?
That's not the surprising bit. The surprising bit is that it is his random encounter two hours prior to the shooting that was the critical evidence needed for the affidavit for arrest. The homeless guy was the eyewitness to put Valente at the place of the shooting. They wouldn't have found this eyewitness, former Brown student that hangs around the building regularly, follows people walking around the building and asks them questions, and perhaps uses the library to post to reddit without the reddit post. Lucky.
It certainly wasn't the detective that "interviewed [redacted] was intubated or otherwise unavailable to speak." as stated early in the affidavit for arrest on probable cause. Glad they found a way to coax the homeless guy to come forward.
Curious enough the portuguese dan brown (actuallly much more talented) had a novel featuring an egyptian born portuguese nuclear physicist divine fury
What has the shooter been doing for more than 20 years
Randomizer,
That would be the wrong bill; it doesn't do nearly enough.
What Congress should do - - and certainly won't -- Is to pass a bill giving an absolute 100% moratorium on any immigration whatsoever for a period of 50 years. That seems like a long enough time to assimilate the current overload of immigrants, and redevelop a strong assimilationist ethic.
If we were going to have any exceptions to that rule at all, I could see granting visas to spouses of American citizens who had already started the visa application process before the bill came in to law. But I am leary of the concept of exceptions in the first place, because it will be sure to engender strife: You got your Visa exception, why can't I get mine?
We did it, Reddit!!!
Everyone should remember that Trump signed the bills that funded letting this guy into the country (among others). Republicans in the House all passed those budgets.
Republicans hands are stained blood red for paying for these programs.
Um no try again there were attempts to reform it in 2007 ans 2009
Regarding the homeless ex student, I think every school has a legendary ex student mythos of the guy who disappeared but still lurked in the attic of the dorm eating food provided for faculty lunches. I heard the same stories and some misfit people even swore they saw and spoke to the creature. One guy told me that he got test answers from him by giving him a pizza. Nice to know that there is a verified specimen.
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/2002047813304430600
The diversity visa was established in the main as a political payoff for Democratic Irish politicians as a way to let more Irish into Boston, since the high volume of Mexican, Chinese and Filipino applicants had taken over the immigration queues. It has changed somewhat since, but in effect now its a backdoor way to let in Europeans.
Mike--I don't know much about the DVL "lottery" program. I assume that it is just allows a few visa applicants out of many to "jump the line." I also assume that the normal vetting would apply (i.e., just because your name was picked in the lottery, if you are a known terrorist or drug criminal you're not getting in). Maybe I'm way off on this.
But on the face of it, the method by which he obtained his visa seems to be merely coincidental to his criminal act.
Regarding the homeless ex student, I think every school has a legendary ex student mythos of the guy who disappeared but still lurked in the attic of the dorm eating food provided for faculty lunches.
First Val Kilmer movie I saw.
And he was a physics student at cal tech
An immigration pause may or may not be a worthy policy.
However immigration is not a significant cause of criminal disorder in the US. The worst criminal violence problems by far come from the very "native" black population, as native as most in the US, and probably more so than most modern nativists. If your ancestors are mid-19th century Irish or Germans or Scandis, well, your black neighbors have you beat by 50-100 years on average.
I see no progress in integrating these people.
Well we cant do much abouf that
Buwaya, I once again offer my Postmodern Homestead and Janissary Programs, to spread our urban poor around.
Also, encouraging interracial marriage would help. Could at least advance us from racism to colorism. I think I will start the Miscegenation Party - we'll wear tan hats that say Make Mama Late Again! CC, JSM
So not only could Brown not track down an active shooter with all their cameras - they couldn't notice a homeless dude living in the science center basement for months? Very strange. I guess if you choose not to kick out Pali protesters for occupying university property, you can't kick out individual randos either....CC, JSM
PS: If Titus were still here, he would regale us with tales of the Harvard science center basement men's room....they took the doors off the stalls back in the 80s. - jsm
The Brown/MIT school shooter was from Portugal—the most egregious example yet of an immigrant doing a job that could that thousands of Americans could have done.
It's remarkable how many falsehoods right-wing grifters spread online about the Brown shooter over the past week—and it's always the same people. Within minutes or hours of the next incident, they'll be back at it, pushing new theories and dubious "sources," none of which turn out to be true.
Will we ever know what sparked the murderer to act on a 30 year grudge against a fellow student (Nuno F.G. Loureiro) who had succeeded and gotten a PhD and teaching job at MIT?
What drew the murderer to that classroom at Brown? Was it a classroom where he had spent a lot of time, or had failed a final, or some trauma had occurred? Or did he choose it because the econ professor, Rachel Friedberg, has a Jewish sounding name? She wasn't there on that day so he shot randomly? Was he looking for someone else and settled for her class?
And coincidentally, the MIT professor was also a Jew.
As I said at the outset what sparked all of this extensive planning? Revenge?
I look forward to the authorities reporting more on the strange man who should never have been in our country.
What was the motive for the shooting
You cant tell me, why he targeted ella and muhammed
Any Moors in Portugal?
Moops.
The most interesting thing to me, is that all of the power players in this opera buffa, despite being handed the solution on a silver plate by a wildcard fringe citizen, still cannot manage to explain why any of it happened in the first place. They're all standing there, scratching themselves with a blank look and saying 'I dunno, maybe Portuguese has something to do with it?' What an absolute screaming sh*t show, 'leadership in 2025'.
As I said at the outset what sparked all of this extensive planning?
According to the affidavit for arrest, he was seen at the building, casing the place, 6 hours before the mass shooting. The encounter with the eyewitness was 2 hours before the shooting. Why all that time?
The car was rented 2 weeks prior.
So many questions gone unasked.
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