re: Brown University Shooting Thread: UPDATE, Also Suspect in MIT murder; Committed Suicide

Here's the Reddit post that broke the case:

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Police, AG, Feds circle jerking each other over finding this guy but without the “homeless” dude the guy would still be running free.

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Cops rely on eyewitness and community for information for almost every single homicide case.

Thx for the upvote.

As for the offer for reconciliation, I still think the situation could have been ameliorated by officials through open communication.

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Just get up there and acknowledge that not continuous hand jobs to each other for such a great job after you obviously had no clue what was going on.

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The Providence PD and Brown University have opened themselves up to significant civil lawsuits ...

Will be interesting to see the follow-on press conferences as these lawsuits start being filed ...

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The disclosure from the authorities is so bad we don't even know if the time of this voluntary study session was posted. Also, the session had run a few minutes late according to the T.A. that ran it. So, the shooter almost missed the class

For all we know, he could have entered the building looking for targets of opportunity and this just happened to be the first one he encountered. In fact, I think that's the most likely explanation, based on what we know now.

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Its been posted that the week of the shooting was a study time, and that there was a Physics class during that time that had an exam but it was moved to another location or time due to it being final exams.

So the thought process was that he thought he was going into a Physics class, but it was a study session for an Economics class.

This was all posted on a chat, and likely used within the university established messaging programs that likely was not available to outside parties?

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Like most, I was annoyed with the communication style with the Rhode Island gang. For instance, TELL the public what the shooter was reported by some to have said.

Ultimately, good for them, they solved the case.

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They bungled the case, and have been completely inept in sharing information about the case and answering questions about the case.

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, but one reason could be that internet sleuths found that person and accused him of being the murderer since he was Palestinian and had pronouns in his profile, without any real evidence that he was a suspect.

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Actually the removal of his profile increased the attention on him because it was so weird.

Despite this, they still never unequivocally denied/cleared him as a suspect.

All they had to do was provide extremely clear language that he was without a doubt NOT the suspect along with some other piece of evidence backing it up and it would have been done.


What did we get instead? Silence, vagueness, and misdirection. The president even claimed to have "no clue" his name was even scrubbed.

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So the thought process was that he thought he was going into a Physics class, but it was a study session for an Economics class.

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Thanks. I hadn't seen that.

ABSENT some inside information, I don't think there could have been a reasonable expectation of a class meeting in that room on a SATURDAY afternoon (see AI capture from Brown Registrar below). The perp was in Providence several days before the shooting. If he had wanted to shoot up a large physics class, he could have done that on any weekday.

From the arrest warrant, shell casings were found OUTSIDE the classroom. Also, the T.A. said that he thought he heard gunshots just prior to the gunman entering the room.

I haven't been able to find a floor plan, but I suspect Room 166 just happened to be the first active classroom/large concentration of targets the killer encountered.

##### ChatGPT re Saturday physics classes...

Here’s what we can tell about physics classes at Brown University in the Fall semester and whether any met on Saturday afternoons:

?? Typical Fall Physics Class Schedules

From the most recent available course listings (Brown Bulletin/Physics Department), all regular physics courses — at least undergrad ones — during Fall 2025 are scheduled on weekdays (Monday through Friday). For example:

Intro physics and labs meet MWF or T/Th/W/F in weekday slots (no Saturday listed).

Standard scheduling guidelines at Brown generally assign courses to weekday times (e.g., MWF 50-minute blocks, TTh 80-minute blocks, or seminars 2.5 hrs on one weekday).


?? Do Brown Classes Ever Meet on Saturdays?

Brown’s Registrar standard meeting patterns do not include Saturday class blocks in regular undergraduate schedules. Courses are normally assigned within Monday–Friday time slots.

If there were special Saturday sessions (like makeup classes, field trips, or optional labs), they would be noted individually in the schedule, but in the standard listings there are no Saturday meetings for physics classes in the fall.

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We know anything about the killer yet? Was this politically motovated?

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Unknown so far. Seems more personal.