I WAS SOMEWHAT WRONG...PROBABLY, MAYBE

By Bob Walsh

 

 

I had originally voiced the opinion that the Brown University shooting was a personal or domestic beef with an exceptionally high collateral damage body county.  

Turns out it wasn't a domestic.  It was maybe a personal beef.  Maybe a semi-terrorist act.  Trouble is since the suspect, a Portugese national named Claudio Neves Valente, 48 years old and a former Brown student, self-rehabilitated when cornered unless he left some significant written material we might not know why.

He also appears to have been the guy who shot the MIT physics professor to death in the professors home.  The FBI originally opined that the two shootings were probably unrelated.  

The dead MIT professor, Nuno F. G. Loureiro, had attended college with Valente in Portugal.  They both studied physics.  Valente got slightly better grades than did Loureiro though they both did very well academically.

Valente came to the U. S. in 2017 on a Diversity Visa.  He got a Green Card later that same year.  It seems likely that he might have harbored some professional jealousy towards Lureiro.  If so that would give a motive to the MIT shooting.  Not so much for the Brown shooting.

I have no doubt more info will dribble out over the next days and weeks.