Brown University gunman; ‘Trump Kennedy Center’; how to feel wonder; and more
The 7
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The gunman in the Brown University shooting was found dead. |
| 0:07.7 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Christina Quinn in for Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:13.3 | It's Friday, December 19th. |
| 0:15.3 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:21.1 | On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall at Brown during an economics study |
| 0:27.3 | session, killing two students and wounding nine others. |
| 0:31.5 | It sparked a search that appeared to stump investigators and rattled communities from |
| 0:36.5 | Providence, Rhode Island to Boston. |
| 0:39.1 | Yesterday, that search came to an end. |
| 0:42.0 | Authorities last night announced the gunman responsible was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage facility. |
| 0:50.3 | He was identified as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Nevis Valenti, a physics graduate student at Brown |
| 0:57.2 | more than two decades ago. |
| 0:59.5 | Officials said he was also responsible for Monday's killing of an MIT professor. |
| 1:05.3 | Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerona gave an update on the case last night. |
| 1:09.4 | We are 100% confident that this is our target and that this case is closed from a perspective of pursuing people involved. |
| 1:21.7 | A legal permanent resident from Portugal, authorities said Nevis Valenti was living in Miami before he came to Boston last month. |
| 1:29.9 | He appears to have acted alone, and his motive for the killings remains unknown. |
| 1:41.0 | The Kennedy Center Board voted to rename the arts institution to the Trump Kennedy Center. |
| 1:47.9 | That's number two. |
| 1:49.5 | For months, President Donald Trump has repeatedly joked about renaming Kennedy Center after himself. |
| 1:55.9 | The Trump Kennedy Center, I mean, Kennedy Center, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Now that joke might |
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