After action report and investigation on Brown University and MIT Professor shooter.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the Brown University and the MIT professor shootings, this man here was the person of interest, |
| 0:17.8 | who was later identified only as a homeless individual, who was once a student at |
| 0:25.3 | Brown University, and just by the name of John. However, John gave some information to the |
| 0:35.4 | police that was so important to this overall investigation and may have led |
| 0:43.0 | to solving this case or one of the many pieces of evidence that led to solving this case. |
| 0:48.9 | And the mayor, Mayor Smiley, has sent a letter to the FBI, imploring them to give the $50,000 reward. |
| 1:03.2 | And whenever money is put up to have a witness come forward in a major investigation, |
| 1:18.6 | the addendum usually is for the arrest, the apprehension, arrest and conviction. So that's sort of a long hill to climb because when John, this homeless fellow, was asked, and not just him, but members of the public, |
| 1:30.6 | if you have any information, there's a $50,000 award. |
| 1:35.5 | And not only did John give information, but he actually confronted the perpetrator |
| 1:42.6 | and chased him and saw the car that he was going into. |
| 1:49.0 | Information that was invaluable at the time to the police. |
| 1:55.0 | And that is something that we will discuss. |
| 1:58.0 | And the other thing that we will discuss is we still do not know the motive |
| 2:03.8 | maybe we will never know the motive in this case clearly it looks like the perpetrator |
| 2:14.6 | Claudio Valenti had an ax to grind with, obviously with the MIT professor |
| 2:23.8 | Nuno Lerreiro, but also with Brown University. It isn't normal for someone, of course, to get a gun. |
| 2:35.0 | And there's lots of evidence now that not only did he get a gun, |
| 2:41.0 | but he reconed. |
| 2:43.0 | He surveyed, he surveilled this location. |
| 2:47.0 | He knew this location. |
| 2:49.0 | So he gets a gun and shoots nine students and kills two others, |
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