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
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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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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