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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Two Victims, Seven Wounded, One Unanswered Question The motive of the Brown University and MIT shooter is still unknown., theories abound but no concrete evidence clearly establishes a motive. The criminal case of Claudio Valente is closed. He'll never face a prosecutor or a judge. For the Brown University community and the seven wounded survivors, the scars—both physical and emotional—will remain. For that reason investigators will keep working.

Transcript

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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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