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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Brown University shooting suspect's connection to MIT professor.

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

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Good afternoon, everyone! This episode brings crucial updates on the **brown university shooting**, analyzing the **latest news** regarding the incident. We discuss the role of **reddit stories** in the investigation, highlighting an anonymous post that mentioned a person of interest and a gray Nissan with Florida plates. Retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon provides his expert commentary on this critical **crime** event in **providence ri**, including details on **police procedure** and potential mistakes made.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right? Go back to sidebar.

0:02.3

And photos, which we talked about on a previous sidebar, that this person walked with a limp.

0:07.3

Investigators took a look at the footage from December 1st.

0:10.1

They see this person.

0:11.9

Number two, Reddit.

0:14.0

Some anonymous person posted on the Providence Reddit board that they saw the suspect walking in the area, flagged that his vehicle

0:22.4

was in the area as well. The Reddit post read, I'm being dead serious. The police need to look

0:27.9

into a gray Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. So authorities look at the footage.

0:32.8

They apparently saw a car that was consistent with the Reddit user's description. The pieces come together.

0:38.3

That car ends up being the same car that Nevis Valenti rented. And just to note, it turns out

0:43.4

that a person may have been somebody who cross paths with the suspect. You may have seen

0:49.1

authority saying that they wanted to talk to this specific person who was, quote, in proximity

0:53.5

to this person

0:54.5

of interest, this suspect. There was also reporting that the suspect got into some sort of altercation

0:58.8

with someone prior to the shootings, ran away. And it is shocking his apparent connection to both

1:05.2

crimes, right? Over the course of two days, authorities claim that the shooter opened fire in Brown

1:09.7

University and then goes to Massachusetts

1:11.8

and kills this professor. So this is what investigators have confirmed that Valenti had attended

1:17.6

Brown for three semesters. He was this graduate student, studied physics. But at the time of the

1:22.9

shooting, to be clear, he had reportedly no affiliation with the university, just this tie from about 25 years

1:28.7

ago. He was only enrolled with Brown University from 2000 to 2001 and then withdrew in 2003.

1:35.7

We learned that during the period of 1995 to 2000, Valenti had attended the same academic

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