December 18, 2025 • 52 mins
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The suspect in both Brown University's mass shooting and the shooting of MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was found in a storage unit in New Hampshire. Two press conferences were held during Nightside.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're going to go now to the news conference. This
is the Mayor of Rhode Island speaking, and it is
felt like ours.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
But the people have Providence have done what we're best at.
We've leaned on one another, come together and supported one another,
and showed the nation what a tight knit.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Community looks like.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was because of the information provided to us by neighbors,
and the tireless work of our Providence Police Department, the
Rhode Island State Police, the FBI, the ATF and many
other federal partners. The incredible prosbytorial advice and guidance that
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we received from the Attorney General's Office. We all worked
well together to be able to identify this suspect. I
know we will have a lot of questions still, and
we will continue to work to get those answers. But
it is a great honor for me to turn this
over to our Chief of Police, Colonel Oscar Press, and
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I will say on behalf of the people of Providence,
we owe him in every member of the Providence Police
Department the deepest debt of gratitude, Colonels, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Maya Well, First and for most, I want to offer
my deepest condolences to the families the victims.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It was for them that his.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Work was put together to make sure that they get
the justice that they deserve and.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
To ensure that this person was held a klonel.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Second think I'll tell you is that I'm extremely proud
of this department, actually, the officers, the detectives, the Real
Time Crime Center, the Community Response Team, the Intelligence Division,
then Arcotics Division.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The task Force.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
This passed outed as you're a December thirteen promise Police
Department in Brown University Police Department responded to this horrific tragedy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Our officers were there within minutes. The same day.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Province Police detectives immediately.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Went to work, immediately went to work looking for video
footage to see who this individual was and who was responsible.
A person of interest was identified from that video footage.
The person of interest was observed down Hope Street turning
onto Waterman Street, and that was one of the first
videos that we released. At the same time, every federal
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agency you can think of was reaching out to the
Province Police Department and responded to the Capital City. Images
were shared with media within hours. Persons of interest it
was the same individual that has been the focus of
this investigation since the beginning. All the new images that
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we received of this person of interests were shared with
the media continuously over the past six days. This critical
evidence was collected with the use of public assistance. As
the mayor stated, I'm proud to be the chief of
police of the city. I'm proud of to be a
product of the city. For the reasons that the mayor stated,
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community stepped up. It was all about groundwork, public assistance,
interviews of individuals, and good old fashioned policing.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That is the type of.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Police work that every police officer in this nation reminds
themselves of and that many do not understand, and that
it is critical and critically important and often succeeds where
technology alone cannot.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We looked at financial records, we looked.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
At video footages, and in a specific incident, it was
actually a video that provided us with a description of
a vehicle that was corroborated through a tip that was
received to the Tip center. That room with detectives agents
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receiving calls on a daily basis. We started early and
left late. Then Flock and the LPR was able.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To provide us with this description of this vehicle. A
vehicle was picked up by.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Flock which led us to a car rental place in Massachusetts.
Through that the agents and their work as well were
able to get us footage of this individual as well
as a copy of the agreement which provided his real name.
The video of that subject matched the description of that
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person of interest that this police department.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Was desperate to put handcuffs on.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
An individual was identified as Claudio Nevis Valente, date of
birth and he was a forty eight year old man.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He was a Brown student.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He was a Portuguese national and his last name non
address was in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And I will tell you that he took his own
life tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We have members of the Province Police Department up and
sale in massive New Hampshire, and we also have the
BCI unit obviously, the FBI and the Evidence Recovery Unit
is up there.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So the process is being conducted as we speak.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And he goes without saying that I would like to
personally thank the efforts again of the Province Police Department,
the Rhode Island State Police, the Roor Island Attorney.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
General, the FBI, the atf.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
HSI, the US Marshals, I R S DEA, Secret Service
and NCIS.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There is no way that we put.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It done this by ourselves and this nation. When horrific
incidents like this happened, law enforcement steps up.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Thank you very much. Thank you, Colonel General Ron, thank you,
thank you Mayor.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
You know, I would describe the emotions on the investigative team,
including our prosecutors and the agents detectives from most State
Police Providence, that's mixed. You know, there is a sense
of completeness in terms of the investigation and investigation that's,
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if not the hardest among the handful of hardest investigations
that I've ever been involved with.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And the sense that we.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Owed those two dead Brown students and the nine injured
Brown students and the students who were in that auditorium
that weren't injured, and the Brown community and the Providence community.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Results and.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
The teams worked really hard. I think I mentioned that
to you almost every night that we met with you.
I wish they were all up here with us, that
we wouldn't fit here, But it just was remarkable to
see the cooperation between the FBI agents, the ATF agents,
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the HSI agents, the Providence Police detectives, the State police detectives,
are prosecutors, and.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I will say that everybody.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Brought a certain expertise to the table. But it is
nevertheless a sad moment when you think about those young
people who were hurt, injured, or worse or two of
them are now deceased. You know, to me, this was
always going to be an investigation where something was going
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to break it open.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We were going to pull threads, we were.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Going to gather evidence that would lead us in a
particular direction. And I will say that if we were
with you less than well, I guess now more than
twenty four hours ago we had that picture of that
second individual, and I would say within an hour, no
more than two, I think it was under an hour,
that person came forward to two Providence police officers over
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on the East Side and said he had information that
he was that person, and he had information that could
help this case. And I remember last night watching his interview,
and he blew this case right open. He blew it open.
And that's how these cases sometimes go. You can feel
like you're not making a lot of progress, you can
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feel like you're chasing leads and they don't work out,
but the team keeps going because you know those of
us with the experience know that you're going to pull
a lot of threads, and it's not always the first
one that's going to get you where you need to go.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But when you do crack it, you crack it.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
And that person led us to the car, which led
us to the name, which led us to the photographs
of that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing
of our shooter here in Providence, that matched the satchel
that we see here in Providence. He was found dead
with a satchel with two firearms and evidence in the
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car that that matches exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
What we see at the scene here in Providence.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
And so I know that you and the public have
questions about how we got from a place yesterday where
all we could share with you was a photograph of
something we wanted to talk to, to where we got
to tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And so we have.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
We got another state arrest warrant from murder today. I
was signed by a district court judge for this individual.
There won't be a prosecution now, of course, but that
affidavit is on our website and you will be able
to see more and read more about how this investigation unfolded.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I won't get you all.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The way there, because there are some things that happened
afterwards which led us to this suspects body in New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But it will, I think, tell you.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Give you a sense of the work that went into
this by the line prosecutors and the line agents and
detectives from the agencies that work so well together. So
you know, as I said, it's with mixed emotions.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It is.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Unimaginable the pain that the parents and families of the
deceased are feeling tonight and will feel undoubtedly for quite
a while. But I hope that by bringing this person
to justice that we can at least give them the
beginnings of some measure of closure.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I want to thank you all for.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Your patients with me when I got a little testy
with some of you. Those of you who know me
from Rhode Island, you know that's my nature. So I
really want to thank you for your patients.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Thank you, Thank you General.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
As has been said several times, the partnership with the
FBI was invaluable and so it's a pleasure to enter
introduce specialis in charge of FBI TED Docs.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
We thank you, Bearny good Evening. My name is Ted Dox,
Special Agent in charge of FBI Boston. We got them
shortly before nine o'clock tonight. The FBI SWAT team executed
at court authorized search wars at storage unit facility in Hampshire,
wrote in Salem, New Hampshire. This is where we located
Claudio Navis Valente, the individual who we believe was responsible
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for the Brown shooting. The latest developments in an intense
five day manhunt, and as a result of an incredible
amount of work dedicated by the law enforcement team standing
here before tonight. Every single agency brought their unique skills
and expertise to this investigation, and we're motivated by the
victims and survivors of this horrific incident. Even though the
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suspect was found dead tonight, our work is not done.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
There are many questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
There's a lot of evidence that needs to be processed,
and most importantly, the victims and their families deserve special
care and consideration. The FBI and our partners across Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire will continue to search for answers for
the victims, survivors, and their families to see what motivated
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this individual to carry out such a senseless act of violence.
From the onset of this critical incident, it's been all
hands on deck. The FBI deployed approximately five hundred special agents, analysts,
askforce officers, and support personnel to assist our partners in
this investigation. In addition to this extra manpower, all our
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specialty teams were activated, including Evidence Response Team, SWAT, DIVERT,
and Victim Services Response Team, just to.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Name a few.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Special thanks to you the media as well as well
as to the community. My sincere thanks to Colonel Perez,
Colonel Weaver, ag Narota, Brown University PD, and all of
our partners.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
This was truly a team effort.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Another critical partner at every step along the way was
the ATF. Like to introduce Special Agent in Charge the ATF,
Tom Greco.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Good evening.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
My name is Tom Greco, a Special Agent in Charge
of ATF Boston. From the moment nine ports of the
shooting at Brown University came through, there's been an around
the clock effort to identify the perpetrator and to protect
the community. The men and women of ATF, including our
special agents, our intelligence research specialists, and our sport personnel
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have been proud to support and be part of that effort,
leveraging our unique experience, dedicated investigators, canine handlers, and crime
gun intelligence technology such as an IBAN, the National Integrated
Ballistics Information Network to compare ballistic evidence, and our other
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available tools to support the investigation and to help identify
Claudio Claudio Nevis Valente as the individual that we believe
was responsible. Ats mission, first and foremost is to protect
communities from violent crime.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Each individual in this country deserves to live in.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Peace and security in their homes, in their schools, in
their places.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Of worship, and in the streets.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
The actions of Claudio Navis Valente stole that right and
terrorized the community. I'd like to emphasize to the public
this was a highly dangerous individual, capable of extreme violence,
and we're happy to have been part of this investigation
and proud to have worked with our partners to identify
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him and see this throat.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
From the very outset on Saturday, from our first press
conference in the fire station to today, Rhode Island Governor
Dan McKee has been.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
By Providence's side every step of the way.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
The City of Providence is incredibly grateful for the Governor's
support the State Police, not just their assistance with the investigation,
but in supporting the broader community. It's a pleasure to
introduce Governor Dan McKee.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Thanks Baron and clearly your staff.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I feel the.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Same way with the team that you have that leet
able to assist. And as a former mayor. Many of
here in the audience know that I've been a mayor,
some don't, but I empathize and sympathize with the position
that you were in and the fact that you needed
people uh to follow the lead of the Providence Police
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and to partner in with some extraordinary people with us,
with the FBI or the ATF, and of course our
state police as well. From the very beginning, my thoughts
as a dad was with the families who suffered from
the shooting. The unthinkable happened in our state, The unthinkable
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happened in Providence, the unthinkable happened at Brown University, and
we're going to be forever changed. But our commitment from
the state level is to continue to support Providence, Brown
and the people of the state of Rhode Island in
the recovery that's going to take a great deal of time,
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but I do say this, the professionalism that I saw
in the law enforcement should make everyone that lives in
our state and beyond our borders very feel very safe.
These things happened, but it requires some professional help and
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law enforcement to bring it to the conclusion.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That we've been able to bring it to.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
So Colonel, thank you everybody involved, and again we will
stand with Providence and Brown University and the people of
the state of Rhode Island to provide the help that
will be needed in the recovery and a trauma like this.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Thank you, Governor.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Throughout the year, the RDNAN State Police is an incredible
partner to Providence, but during this investigation, their support was invaluable.
I introduced Colonel and State Police Colonel Weaver.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
My name is Colonel Darnel Weaver, the Superintendent of the
Rhy Island State Police. I want to begin by recognizing
the excellent, excellent, and exceptional efforts of the Providence Police
Department and Colonel Oscar Perez. From the very first moments
of this investigation, the Providence Police Department has worked collaboratively
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and relentlessly day and night on this investigation while protecting
our capital city. Their detectives followed facts, developed evidence, and
pursued every credible lead. Colonel Perez's leadership has been steady
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and decisive, focused on identifying the person responsible for this tragedy.
As always, our troopers stepped up, working shoulder to shoulder
with the Providence Police and our local, state, and federal partners.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I want to give particular.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
Recognition to our detectives whose diligence and dedication contributed to
this investigation. Our detectives and division leadership operated as a
unified team, sharing intelligence, resources and expertise. This has truly
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been an all hands on deck investigation, as virtually every
trooper has taken extra shifts to help the apport the
efforts in Providence, and I have never been prouder to
be a member of the Brown State Police. This year
marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Royal State Police.
In this case stands out among one of the most
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challenging in our state's history. The share volume of digital evidence,
the complexity of the investigation, and the intense public interest
played in extraordinary demands on everyone involved. Despite that pressure,
investigators remained disciplined, methodical, and focused on facts.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We are grateful for.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
The assistance of the public, particularly those who shared our information,
provided tips, and gave us doorbell camera footage and access
to their property. We are also thankful for the ongoing
support of Rhode Islanders. We know that you have been
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with us through this entire investigation. I also want to
be very clear about something else. Criminal investigations are grounded
in evidence, not speculation or online commentary. The endless barrage
of misinformation, disinformation, rumors, leaks, and clickbait.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Were not helpful in this investigation.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Distractions and unfounded criticisms do not support this work. They
complicate it and threaten to undermine the justice we seek
for the victims and the grieving families. Despite these challenges,
good police work prevailed and we have lessons that we
can bring forward from these long days ahead to the
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Brown University community and the people of Rhode Island. Be
assured that this case reflects the law enforcement community in
what we are capable of, and that we are committed
to this state. We will continue to support the victims
in the broader community as the healing continues.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Thank you, True, thank you. Colonel. Providence is so proud
to be home to Brown.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
University, and we are committed to working together with them
in the future as they help heal their community as
we do our broader Providence community. We continue to give
condolences to the deceased and our prayers to those who
are recovering. The leader of Brown has been a great partner.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Through this whole process.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Like to introduce President Christina Paxson from Brown University.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Thank you. You know nothing can really fully bring closure
to the lives that have been shattered over the past week,
but this may allow our community to move forward and
begin a path of repair and recovery and healing. I
want to thank the dedicated law enforcement agencies that have
worked so tirelessly on this case, really around the clock,
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as well as our neighbors and others who participated in
giving tips and helping with the investigation. We hope that
this outcome tonight brings an increased sense of safety for
our community ground in the surrounding area. This has been
a period of great fear and anxiety for many people
and now perhaps some form of relief. Truly, this week
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has been devastating for our community in a number of ways,
including the experiences that members of our community have had
with being targeted by online rumors and accusations, and I
hope that this development also means an end to this
truly troubling activity. So we remain used on the safety
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and security of our community and in support for the
victims of this senseless violence. Now we know the public
and our own Brown community members will want to know
more about the individual now identified by law enforcement as
the suspect in last weekend shooting, and we can confirm
the following to the best of our knowledge based on
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our review in the very short time since law enforcement
authorities made us aware of this development, and we provided
this information to law enforcement as they build their case
and wrap up the investigation. So Claudium Menuel Navis Valenti
was enrolled at Brown from the fall of two thousand
to the spring of two thousand and one. He was
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admitted to Brown's graduate school to study in the Masters
of Science PhD program in physics beginning on September one,
two thousand and He took a leave of absence effective
April two thousand and one, before form withdrawing effective July
thirty first, two thousand and three. During his time Brown,
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Nuevius valente was enrolled only in physics classes. The majority
of physics classes if Brown have always been held within
the Barrison Holly classrooms and labs. Now detailed records indicating
where specific courses were held don't extend back to two
thousand and one, but we can say that physics classes
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typically require access to specialized equipment, including demonstration parts, that
are a fixed asset in some of Barrison Holy classrooms.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
So I think it's.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
Safe to assume that this man, when he was a student,
spent a great deal of time in that building for
classes and other activities as a PhD student in physics.
He has no current active affiliation with the university or
campus presence. So again, we thank law enforcement and so
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many others for their extensive work on this case, day
and night, and we look forward to a sense of
restored safety for Brown, Providence and the Rhode Island communities.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Thank you, Thank you, President Paxson the last speaker, and
then we will take your questions. As the chief of
the Brown Police Department, Chief Chapman, remember his officers were
the first to respond on Saturday, and we are so
grateful for both their immediate and heroic response and their
partnership over.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
The last five days Chief, I want to express my
ongoing prayers and care concern for our entire community. I
certainly also want to acknowledge and thank the men and
women of the Brown University Police and Public Safety for
their efforts. This was a herculean task and required a
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lot of collaboration and work, and our officers and our
public safety public safety personnel we shoulder to shoulder with
these assets. I do want to also thank all of
you who have helped citizens and law enforcement. That partnership
and collaboration means the world to us, and we couldn't
have gotten it without you, So thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Thank you. Jee well. Now, questions go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
What a lot of.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Authorities to links between Grown University and mist truth.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'll just tell you that a lot of the information
and evidence that we ended up gathering linked us to
a connection up in Massachusetts, but obviously at the mid
but uh, I feel respect to the authorities and mass
as well as the FBI.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's for them to come in.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But I'll tell you the groundwork that started in the
city of Providence by our detectives, the Detective Division under
the command of Major Opinion, as well as the federal
partners that we had in that room upstairs and atf
the FBI led us to that connection and so that
was great work, especially.
Speaker 14 (28:10):
This FBI one way and I'm that.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
And then I have a follow I think through that
particular link that you're talking about, that case is being
worked out of Massachusetts with the leadership of US Attorney
of Folly. I believe that they're having a press conference
today as well, where they'll reveal more to the general public.
At that time, I'd be I'd be remiss to start
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and kind of talk on this h to let them
kind of had first first labs to kind of be
the ones to tell.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
The public about those particular links your follow.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
As for the second person who came forward, what did
that person tell you and did that person know the shooter?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Me?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
So, yeah, Obviously I had mentioned that the last press
conference that we was a person that we wanted to
speak with.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
The work of the video collections that we had led
us to identify that there was a person that actually
encountered this individual. So he corroborated everything that we saw.
We saw our personal interest, We saw that there was
a vehicle involved when this person came in broke the
case in the sense that explained to us exactly what
we thought we had seen and put that individual at
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the crime scene. Obviously that was that was the break
because we were knew they were we were in the
right direction.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
To ensure that we were going after this individual. But
obviously to his life. Steve, thank you.
Speaker 15 (29:39):
There the loan and there the senators and components behind.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
As far as we know, Steve, he acted alone.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
No, no, that we know of.
Speaker 15 (29:53):
No, John, what was the events that led to the.
Speaker 14 (30:00):
So was he pursued there? Did he know authorities were
going after him?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
When was he last a while?
Speaker 14 (30:06):
How did that play out?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So it plays out in the sense that we obviously
I just stated, we collected all the evidence. We were
able to learn that there was a rental vehicle. We
learned about that vehicle. Uh there was financial records that
were verified by the FBI, obviously and in other agencies.
I'm sorry actually uh so another agency. So multiple agencies
that verified financial records that brought us to that site
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to know that he had actually rented a site at
the story shooting.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And then we ended up puffing.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Say when he did that, did he know the authorities
were coming or did he just go.
Speaker 14 (30:43):
And like how long had he been in.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That story that we're not we're not aware of John
in the sense that all we knew is that we
were on a man hunt and that's what he led
us to.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
So, Okay, some questions for you.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
So he graduated, He did graduate, He was around more
than twenty years ago.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
He's the last nam uses in Miami.
Speaker 16 (31:04):
But now he's here at Brian Emersity potentially also with NC.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
What do you know about what brianing vet.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Here h that's that's gonna be unknown answers.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We Uh that we have no answer as far as
that obviously came up here and care committed this horrific
incident and this tragedy, and that's all we knew. Our
our misure wants to ensure that we could find him
and bring him to justice.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
But yeah, no at this point correct.
Speaker 12 (31:27):
My follow up is, uh, of the evidence that you've collected,
have you collected and on that you you just used
in the shooting? Have you collected any type of manifestor
or evidence?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Have you plan more shot?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
So, as far as I know that as the FBI
evidence recovery team is up in Taylum, New Hampshire, and
they're collecting whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Evidence is up there.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
This happened just now, is before we came up here, Phil.
Speaker 17 (31:50):
Any criminal history, political affiliations, any social media posts, any
of that.
Speaker 14 (31:55):
Sort of thing you could report to us about.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Mistopher let nothing that I know obviously behind him.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
What you said, go ahead the white shirt? Is there any.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
Future attacks?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Nothing that we know of.
Speaker 15 (32:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (32:09):
And then way back especially to doctor football, if there
the connection.
Speaker 19 (32:13):
I know you said you can't talked too much about
the MIT, but the fact that it was a physics
professor out of MIT and then the.
Speaker 14 (32:19):
Physics building and he was studying physics.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Have you titled that up?
Speaker 19 (32:22):
And does that lead the way white target one person
in Massachusetts?
Speaker 14 (32:26):
And then I'm both last.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Year in a in projects.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
Yes, it is true that mister Bilinda was a physics
uh student.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Also we know that the MIT the victim there was
uh in that uh discipline as well. I will tell
you that there's multiple phases to an investigation. And so
now in the sense that we we know the subject,
the subject is deceased, now that investigation continues to find
out all of those answers uh to your question, certain.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
You go professor, did you go to s school with
a professor who's built the crowd as with us.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
It is believed that in Lisbon that those two individuals
attended the same university in Portugal.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You have a follow up in the back. Sorry and
then pretty sippio.
Speaker 14 (33:25):
That's going and s A, I can't give the.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Question was how you can briefly explain how we got
to this individual and what occurred? So mental how knows
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Speaker 12 (35:00):
Colonel or is there a no Orman acesto of some
kind and is that providing any information about.
Speaker 14 (35:08):
A motive or anything to let.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You know there will be if we have recovery team
in for physics. I been saylim New Hampshire. At this
point we don't have any of that of why now
behind why is Saturday? That we don't know? I don't
think we know the answer that question. I think there's
a lot of unknowns would respect to motive. I mean,
(35:32):
I think that the real issue here is uh. The
key was to identify this person, as we talked about yesterday.
I think there are other answers that are coming.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
But you know, once we were able to identify them,
you know, thanks to that individual who came forward, who
led us to a plate, which led us to a
rental car, which led us to a that he rented
that car in his own name.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
That really broke the case open.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
But in terms of why Brown, I think that is
a mystery. I think there may be something going on
in Massachusetts that I'm not fully familiar with because we're
working this angle.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
But I think the Massachusetts authority is being able to
share that. Yeah, I don't think we have any idea
why now, or why why Brown? Why these students, why
this classroom?
Speaker 6 (36:16):
That that is really unknown to us, and it may
become clear. I hope that it does, but it hasn't.
As a right Master Fox.
Speaker 14 (36:28):
General sixteen.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
You know that showed the second person that apparently mo
this case wide open.
Speaker 15 (36:34):
And also, mister XI, you see them disappear behind bushes.
Speaker 14 (36:39):
Was this second person following the shooter? Can you recognize him?
You can confront him? What was that interaction like.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
An alcohol That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And now we'll explain in the affidavita that the General
stated they will be released.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
But I'll give you a brief sort of explanation about that.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Uh, the person that wanted to speak with had an
interaction with this individual earlier in the day, then served
them later at that time where you just stated and
decided that he was going to encounter him and ask
them why he was inside Brown that point.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
The person the subject of interest.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Nevs actually ran he was caught up by our person
that we wanted to speak with. There was sort of
a conversation between the two of them and he's Nevs.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Asked him, why are you harassed me? And at that
point are.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
The person that broke the case? Walked away?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
And that information was critical to us because he was
able to corroborate what our detectives were seeing on video
and he was able.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
To provide a great explanation.
Speaker 15 (37:39):
Yes, why did it take a citizen to notice a
suspicious person right next to Brown.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
University and not the police?
Speaker 14 (37:45):
And also how long was the vehicle part? Where was
and was it day's hours of information?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
It appeared to be days as far as our evidence.
Why would a civilian observe that to be suspicious? It's
a great point, and I like the fact that you're
mentioned and that I'm bringing that out.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
That's that's what we should all be doing, right And.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
It's just personalities when people are more interested in finding
out what others are doing. In this particular case, this
person decided that he wanted to and I'm glad he did.
Speaker 19 (38:15):
In the back now that the suspect general, the suspect
won't be prosecuted. Can you explain what he yells in
the classrooms or America's knights or people?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Get sure a little more comfortab Was there something you.
Speaker 14 (38:27):
Know, future terrorists related? Was it something specific for the
kids in that classroom? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Yeah, Well back to that question, just for minugers to
clarify that they had an interaction in the bathroom, embarrassing Holly.
So you know, I don't know the problems. Police is
obviously not going to patrol barrass and Holly. That's a
question for frankly for Brown in their police department. So
they had an interaction there, and then our our our citizen, uh,
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you know, followed him out because to him, as he
explained it to us, Uh, this guy did not belong there,
and and so that's why he followed him out. In
terms of what was said, I don't know any more
today than what I told you yesterday so or the
day before.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
There are some some.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Witnesses said he said nothing. There are some that say
he made a barking noise. Don't ask me. I don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And that's it there.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
There is no other spoken word beyond that that we
are aware of. As we stand before you, tonight and
we have we have spoken to everybody that we have
been able to locate who has been inside that building.
Speaker 14 (39:34):
And just a specialation in charge.
Speaker 19 (39:37):
My follow up question is, can you just be clear
to the people of Massachusetts And he said the people
in the Norfolk County investigates.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
But he did say two days.
Speaker 14 (39:45):
That we talked to the colonel of the State Lease.
Speaker 19 (39:47):
And said, I have no connection between rook Lying and
what happened here in Rabela. But now he's saying there
was a connections. So are you saying that he shot
up Brown University? Then two days later he was at
this in Brookline to shoot this m I professor and
then he just drove out.
Speaker 14 (40:04):
To Salem and be am sure for no reason.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
No, No, I think that's a great question.
Speaker 8 (40:10):
My actual statement was that we didn't see a connection
at that time, but absolutely I spoke to the colonel.
Right now, that case is being resided over by US
Attorney leoh Foley. They're having a press conference at ten
o'clock tonight. I believe I think at that time they
will speak to that particular case. I would be getting
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a little bit ahead of my skis if I spoke
to that case without consultation with Leo Folly and her team.
As we've been in the trenches working this up to
the minute today.
Speaker 14 (40:44):
Sir, you know they were connected. Now you're saying they.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Yes, And that's how cases often go.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
I would say at that time, when when that question
was asked of me, uh, there was no indication of
a link at that time. As we've talked throughout this week,
these bread crumbs develop, and we'll see what.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
She has to say today at ten pm. If I
just want to.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Jump in here, please, I just want to jump in
here on that, because it's a good question.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
It's an important one.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
So just what everyone's mind at East was listening now,
it was he just just drive to some random storage area.
We found records with the help of the FBI and others,
that that was his storage area. So he rented a
car in Boston, he drove it. We were able to
find that car in New Hampshire. We were able to
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find evidence in the car from looking at it from
the outside that connected this individual to our crime scene
here in Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
We were able to find.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Visual evidence of him inside that storage facility, which in
my judgment, matches.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Into the Massachusetts.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
So you'll hear mor as the special agent said, But
there is no question that that was his storage unit,
that he had a particular car that we found that
car because of this citizen coming forward and giving us
a description of the car, and then our individual who
came forward, we knew he was telling the truth because
we could see it on the videotape. And so that
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was a series of things that broke this case, and
that led us to Salem, where the where the suspect
was found dead.
Speaker 8 (42:23):
Step Steph.
Speaker 14 (42:27):
He providence for and when he.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Doesn't, I can guess that he will be an anthetheta.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
But he he didn't fly into all providence, I believe
earlier I've told her, I believe.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
That's the right day. Uh and uh, what was the
other question? I'm sorry, Stiff, you don't know the.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Answer to that stuff as we stand here right now.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
That that's but what we do know is that he
was moving around New England in that October, November and
December area. Remember we just have We know that there's
a body in New Hampshire. We know that there are
guns at the scene. It still remains to be examined.
Comparing those guns to the ballistics evidence we have in
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Rhode Island, and I imagine they'll do that in Massachusetts.
But again that's somebody else's investigation. And then of course
we want to make sure that we match the DNA.
But but we are confident that this is our target
and that this case is closed from a from a
perspective of pursuing people involved.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Instead just I think, especially Asia Duck stated, obviously we
didn't know who he was, and so it's very difficult
to know what a person did prior without any to
who that person is.
Speaker 14 (43:58):
It sounds like I'm from everything everybody say. And then
the question if people were speak to you as a
fro in this in.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
This story in a lot of way, absolutely, Uh.
Speaker 14 (44:07):
Do you know that there's a fifty thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
You meet that the reward.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
Again, I will say that, uh, in this particular uh situation, Uh,
that individual will likely uh get absolutely some aspect out
of of that award.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
We've had a lot of other.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
Tips I will tell you as well that have come
in from the public, and so I don't deal typically
with the distribution of those those uh rewards, But I
mean it would be logical to think that absolutely that
that individual would uh be a title to some of
that reward.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yes, so second second row red shirt, go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
You.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
Suspects the colonel.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Well, we know if he left for Providence and committed
a homicide in another in another s state and that,
but we don't I'm try leave.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
When he left. That's why as far as we know
that he left with we didn't.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
I believe his last activity was obviously when we found
out he was in another state from in another contry.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Pat that's for college radio.
Speaker 20 (45:12):
Uh throw the shout for all of you with particular
regards to rive University of President. A recurring theme for
the last few days has been an outrage ultimately successful
in the people over An Island and.
Speaker 14 (45:23):
The people of New England to track this individual down.
Speaker 15 (45:26):
Well at the same time, who got this sort of
passive aggressive criticism of individuals who are being actively abs
to engage via social media, who are wildly starting rumors
some of which couldn't have possibly emanated anywhere than law
enforcement and I go up a follow So they would
like to respond to that, I mean, it's it's it's
kind of condescending to a lot of people I know,
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cover idea that you're confused that Scott a common.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
But the we're moving on current, no current with that
information that ran, like.
Speaker 14 (46:02):
Was it online or or with that person to come
forward online.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
There was a tip that was placed online and obviously
we were doing our due diligence to find out who
that tips there was and then we were able to
identify this person who wanted to speak with and then
we learned that that person was actually the same person
that put the tip on that up the Yeah you're
speaking about Brian, it was the same person that that
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we brought into the police station to speak with.
Speaker 21 (46:31):
The beginning where you can see mister Volante's space, where
were those images taken from that.
Speaker 5 (46:37):
Take him from the con rental business place that that
we learned about that No.
Speaker 21 (46:44):
President Paxson, if you could go if the situation is
described that you have the suspected gunman and this other
person had an encounter in the engineering building hours before
the shooting. I had been told by an employee that
there had been concerns at Brown previously about people.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
Getting in the building and you heard those and was
anything done.
Speaker 14 (47:07):
To address those concerns about people getting into the building?
Speaker 12 (47:11):
Yeah, I mean that's a really good question. I think
we're gonna have to look back and say, you know,
we don't know how this person got in. We don't
know when they came in. We do know that the
building was unlocked that day for exams, and that's something
we're gonna have.
Speaker 14 (47:27):
To concerns from staff members in the past.
Speaker 12 (47:30):
I had I have not personally heard concerns, but yeah.
Speaker 18 (47:34):
Then, President of Passing Dan Jay from NBC ten, I
want to go back to the question I asked you
Saturday night when I first arrived on the scene. There
were no cameras in this building, and law enforcements, some
that are standing up behind you have said if Brown
had cameras in that part of the building, we would
have gotten this guy.
Speaker 14 (47:58):
And it may have stopped this.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Can you answer that question for me?
Speaker 12 (48:03):
Well, I don't think we have said the locations of
cameras at Brown.
Speaker 14 (48:07):
We have because why would they take it from a
rental car agency.
Speaker 12 (48:11):
We have twelve hundred cameras at Brown, but not in
that building. We have some in that building. It's a
large complex, and I think what you would see is
the video evidence in this case. From my perspective, I'm
not a law enforcement agent has been incredibly helpful the
moving of the person around the neighborhood. Those video images,
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they helped craft this case. So I think video was important.
And as the Attorney General explained at a recent press conference,
this individual was not spending his time on the Brown campus.
He came into a building on the edge of the campus.
He left, He was in the neighborhoods. The investigation focused
on the neighborhoods. The video was there and that was
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really really instrumental in cracking the case. But you can
ask them.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
From president and say the podium, Yes, video played a
big role in this case.
Speaker 17 (49:05):
The neighbor's video, the rental car video, not the video
from the building that he walked in freely, both before
when he got in a confrontation and when he came
back in decided to kill people. You didn't have cameras
in that building, just say it so we could give
us over it.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
And my next question is will the cameras in the building?
Speaker 12 (49:27):
Yeah, you know, I I think we need to look back.
We'll look at everything that is done. But I do
not think a lack of cameras in that building it
had anything to do with what happened there and we
will go for it. Thank you, John, cos I'm hearing
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from sources that the person that I.
Speaker 10 (49:51):
Identified the shooter had maybe a almost person that either
lived around or inside of that Barras and Holly building.
Speaker 6 (49:59):
If you could earned more about this, this person becus
and never follved for President Passion.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
I'll tell you it was a person that was pretty
authentive about his surroundings. I'll tell you it was a
person that was very cooperative and helpful to his investigations.
And I'll tell you that he was a great individual
that actually assisted us and getting us to this point
where we're at.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
I'll tell you this, he was.
Speaker 6 (50:23):
Yes, I have to say, it's incredibly articulate, and his testimony,
had we needed it, would not only have been credible,
it would have been persuasive.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
He was as outstanding a witness as I've seen.
Speaker 6 (50:40):
And he deserves a lot of credit, you know, recognizing
there's a government on the loose that the government knows
he had this interaction with him, and he didn't once
he knew that we were looking for his help.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I mean, he came.
Speaker 6 (50:54):
Forward within an hour, and that person deserves a tremendous
amount of credit. I don't know whether he's going to
get the reward or not, but if I had a voter,
he would the time you gotta follow go ahead.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
In mind.
Speaker 16 (51:09):
In October, the Brown Deliro reported that.
Speaker 14 (51:12):
You had voted around oppenens in.
Speaker 16 (51:14):
Your leadership and students were concerned all their safety and
the fact that you're prioritize the desk jobs over having
overfield jobs and having more more patrolling patrol people patrolling
the campus. Now the mind of this, do you accept
any kind of responsibility for this?
Speaker 1 (51:35):
And now that we have even need to.
Speaker 16 (51:37):
Higher warnings, are you going to reevaluate how the Round
police operated in the future now so this doesn't happen again.
At least the students can feel more safe on the
Harvest uh when they return.
Speaker 13 (51:50):
So, as I stated earlier, profoundly proud of the men
and women of public safety and profoundly proud of our
police department, we will continue with the heroic rope work
that they've done and continue to work side by side
with our partners and everything else that comes with that
is a continual effort to do what's best for the
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safety and security of our campus.
Speaker 12 (52:14):
But will you re read assess how the people.
Speaker 15 (52:18):
I will pay you.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
We go department.
Speaker 13 (52:22):
Every single day we work and endeavor to keep our
campus safe. Whatever that entails and all that that entails
in the back.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yes, I was a question for the pelonel.
Speaker 14 (52:34):
Let me talk a piece of U.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Two weapons were found in religious Heart that one of
those weapons of the God that was used to shoot
here is where is that?
Speaker 14 (52:43):
What we found?
Speaker 1 (52:45):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
That's all part of these continuing investigations. This just before
we came downstairs. Actually as you're watching, that was developing
up in Sailing, New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
Yes,
We're going to go now to the news conference. This
is the Mayor of Rhode Island speaking, and it is
felt like ours.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
But the people have Providence have done what we're best at.
We've leaned on one another, come together and supported one another,
and showed the nation what a tight knit.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Community looks like.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was because of the information provided to us by neighbors,
and the tireless work of our Providence Police Department, the
Rhode Island State Police, the FBI, the ATF and many
other federal partners. The incredible prosbytorial advice and guidance that
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we received from the Attorney General's Office. We all worked
well together to be able to identify this suspect. I
know we will have a lot of questions still, and
we will continue to work to get those answers. But
it is a great honor for me to turn this
over to our Chief of Police, Colonel Oscar Press, and
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I will say on behalf of the people of Providence,
we owe him in every member of the Providence Police
Department the deepest debt of gratitude, Colonels, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Maya Well, First and for most, I want to offer
my deepest condolences to the families the victims.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It was for them that his.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Work was put together to make sure that they get
the justice that they deserve and.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
To ensure that this person was held a klonel.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Second think I'll tell you is that I'm extremely proud
of this department, actually, the officers, the detectives, the Real
Time Crime Center, the Community Response Team, the Intelligence Division,
then Arcotics Division.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The task Force.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
This passed outed as you're a December thirteen promise Police
Department in Brown University Police Department responded to this horrific tragedy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Our officers were there within minutes. The same day.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Province Police detectives immediately.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Went to work, immediately went to work looking for video
footage to see who this individual was and who was responsible.
A person of interest was identified from that video footage.
The person of interest was observed down Hope Street turning
onto Waterman Street, and that was one of the first
videos that we released. At the same time, every federal
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agency you can think of was reaching out to the
Province Police Department and responded to the Capital City. Images
were shared with media within hours. Persons of interest it
was the same individual that has been the focus of
this investigation since the beginning. All the new images that
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we received of this person of interests were shared with
the media continuously over the past six days. This critical
evidence was collected with the use of public assistance. As
the mayor stated, I'm proud to be the chief of
police of the city. I'm proud of to be a
product of the city. For the reasons that the mayor stated,
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community stepped up. It was all about groundwork, public assistance,
interviews of individuals, and good old fashioned policing.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That is the type of.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Police work that every police officer in this nation reminds
themselves of and that many do not understand, and that
it is critical and critically important and often succeeds where
technology alone cannot.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We looked at financial records, we looked.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
At video footages, and in a specific incident, it was
actually a video that provided us with a description of
a vehicle that was corroborated through a tip that was
received to the Tip center. That room with detectives agents
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receiving calls on a daily basis. We started early and
left late. Then Flock and the LPR was able.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To provide us with this description of this vehicle. A
vehicle was picked up by.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Flock which led us to a car rental place in Massachusetts.
Through that the agents and their work as well were
able to get us footage of this individual as well
as a copy of the agreement which provided his real name.
The video of that subject matched the description of that
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person of interest that this police department.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Was desperate to put handcuffs on.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
An individual was identified as Claudio Nevis Valente, date of
birth and he was a forty eight year old man.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He was a Brown student.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He was a Portuguese national and his last name non
address was in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And I will tell you that he took his own
life tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We have members of the Province Police Department up and
sale in massive New Hampshire, and we also have the
BCI unit obviously, the FBI and the Evidence Recovery Unit
is up there.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So the process is being conducted as we speak.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And he goes without saying that I would like to
personally thank the efforts again of the Province Police Department,
the Rhode Island State Police, the Roor Island Attorney.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
General, the FBI, the atf.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
HSI, the US Marshals, I R S DEA, Secret Service
and NCIS.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There is no way that we put.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It done this by ourselves and this nation. When horrific
incidents like this happened, law enforcement steps up.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Thank you very much. Thank you, Colonel General Ron, thank you,
thank you Mayor.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
You know, I would describe the emotions on the investigative team,
including our prosecutors and the agents detectives from most State
Police Providence, that's mixed. You know, there is a sense
of completeness in terms of the investigation and investigation that's,
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if not the hardest among the handful of hardest investigations
that I've ever been involved with.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And the sense that we.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Owed those two dead Brown students and the nine injured
Brown students and the students who were in that auditorium
that weren't injured, and the Brown community and the Providence community.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Results and.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
The teams worked really hard. I think I mentioned that
to you almost every night that we met with you.
I wish they were all up here with us, that
we wouldn't fit here, But it just was remarkable to
see the cooperation between the FBI agents, the ATF agents,
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the HSI agents, the Providence Police detectives, the State police detectives,
are prosecutors, and.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I will say that everybody.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Brought a certain expertise to the table. But it is
nevertheless a sad moment when you think about those young
people who were hurt, injured, or worse or two of
them are now deceased. You know, to me, this was
always going to be an investigation where something was going
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to break it open.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We were going to pull threads, we were.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Going to gather evidence that would lead us in a
particular direction. And I will say that if we were
with you less than well, I guess now more than
twenty four hours ago we had that picture of that
second individual, and I would say within an hour, no
more than two, I think it was under an hour,
that person came forward to two Providence police officers over
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on the East Side and said he had information that
he was that person, and he had information that could
help this case. And I remember last night watching his interview,
and he blew this case right open. He blew it open.
And that's how these cases sometimes go. You can feel
like you're not making a lot of progress, you can
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feel like you're chasing leads and they don't work out,
but the team keeps going because you know those of
us with the experience know that you're going to pull
a lot of threads, and it's not always the first
one that's going to get you where you need to go.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But when you do crack it, you crack it.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
And that person led us to the car, which led
us to the name, which led us to the photographs
of that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing
of our shooter here in Providence, that matched the satchel
that we see here in Providence. He was found dead
with a satchel with two firearms and evidence in the
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car that that matches exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
What we see at the scene here in Providence.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
And so I know that you and the public have
questions about how we got from a place yesterday where
all we could share with you was a photograph of
something we wanted to talk to, to where we got
to tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And so we have.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
We got another state arrest warrant from murder today. I
was signed by a district court judge for this individual.
There won't be a prosecution now, of course, but that
affidavit is on our website and you will be able
to see more and read more about how this investigation unfolded.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I won't get you all.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The way there, because there are some things that happened
afterwards which led us to this suspects body in New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But it will, I think, tell you.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Give you a sense of the work that went into
this by the line prosecutors and the line agents and
detectives from the agencies that work so well together. So
you know, as I said, it's with mixed emotions.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It is.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Unimaginable the pain that the parents and families of the
deceased are feeling tonight and will feel undoubtedly for quite
a while. But I hope that by bringing this person
to justice that we can at least give them the
beginnings of some measure of closure.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I want to thank you all for.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Your patients with me when I got a little testy
with some of you. Those of you who know me
from Rhode Island, you know that's my nature. So I
really want to thank you for your patients.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Thank you, Thank you General.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
As has been said several times, the partnership with the
FBI was invaluable and so it's a pleasure to enter
introduce specialis in charge of FBI TED Docs.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
We thank you, Bearny good Evening. My name is Ted Dox,
Special Agent in charge of FBI Boston. We got them
shortly before nine o'clock tonight. The FBI SWAT team executed
at court authorized search wars at storage unit facility in Hampshire,
wrote in Salem, New Hampshire. This is where we located
Claudio Navis Valente, the individual who we believe was responsible
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for the Brown shooting. The latest developments in an intense
five day manhunt, and as a result of an incredible
amount of work dedicated by the law enforcement team standing
here before tonight. Every single agency brought their unique skills
and expertise to this investigation, and we're motivated by the
victims and survivors of this horrific incident. Even though the
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suspect was found dead tonight, our work is not done.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
There are many questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
There's a lot of evidence that needs to be processed,
and most importantly, the victims and their families deserve special
care and consideration. The FBI and our partners across Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire will continue to search for answers for
the victims, survivors, and their families to see what motivated
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this individual to carry out such a senseless act of violence.
From the onset of this critical incident, it's been all
hands on deck. The FBI deployed approximately five hundred special agents, analysts,
askforce officers, and support personnel to assist our partners in
this investigation. In addition to this extra manpower, all our
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specialty teams were activated, including Evidence Response Team, SWAT, DIVERT,
and Victim Services Response Team, just to.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Name a few.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Special thanks to you the media as well as well
as to the community. My sincere thanks to Colonel Perez,
Colonel Weaver, ag Narota, Brown University PD, and all of
our partners.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
This was truly a team effort.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Another critical partner at every step along the way was
the ATF. Like to introduce Special Agent in Charge the ATF,
Tom Greco.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Good evening.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
My name is Tom Greco, a Special Agent in Charge
of ATF Boston. From the moment nine ports of the
shooting at Brown University came through, there's been an around
the clock effort to identify the perpetrator and to protect
the community. The men and women of ATF, including our
special agents, our intelligence research specialists, and our sport personnel
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have been proud to support and be part of that effort,
leveraging our unique experience, dedicated investigators, canine handlers, and crime
gun intelligence technology such as an IBAN, the National Integrated
Ballistics Information Network to compare ballistic evidence, and our other
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available tools to support the investigation and to help identify
Claudio Claudio Nevis Valente as the individual that we believe
was responsible. Ats mission, first and foremost is to protect
communities from violent crime.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Each individual in this country deserves to live in.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Peace and security in their homes, in their schools, in
their places.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Of worship, and in the streets.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
The actions of Claudio Navis Valente stole that right and
terrorized the community. I'd like to emphasize to the public
this was a highly dangerous individual, capable of extreme violence,
and we're happy to have been part of this investigation
and proud to have worked with our partners to identify
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him and see this throat.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
From the very outset on Saturday, from our first press
conference in the fire station to today, Rhode Island Governor
Dan McKee has been.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
By Providence's side every step of the way.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
The City of Providence is incredibly grateful for the Governor's
support the State Police, not just their assistance with the investigation,
but in supporting the broader community. It's a pleasure to
introduce Governor Dan McKee.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Thanks Baron and clearly your staff.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I feel the.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Same way with the team that you have that leet
able to assist. And as a former mayor. Many of
here in the audience know that I've been a mayor,
some don't, but I empathize and sympathize with the position
that you were in and the fact that you needed
people uh to follow the lead of the Providence Police
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and to partner in with some extraordinary people with us,
with the FBI or the ATF, and of course our
state police as well. From the very beginning, my thoughts
as a dad was with the families who suffered from
the shooting. The unthinkable happened in our state, The unthinkable
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happened in Providence, the unthinkable happened at Brown University, and
we're going to be forever changed. But our commitment from
the state level is to continue to support Providence, Brown
and the people of the state of Rhode Island in
the recovery that's going to take a great deal of time,
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but I do say this, the professionalism that I saw
in the law enforcement should make everyone that lives in
our state and beyond our borders very feel very safe.
These things happened, but it requires some professional help and
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law enforcement to bring it to the conclusion.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That we've been able to bring it to.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
So Colonel, thank you everybody involved, and again we will
stand with Providence and Brown University and the people of
the state of Rhode Island to provide the help that
will be needed in the recovery and a trauma like this.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Thank you, Governor.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Throughout the year, the RDNAN State Police is an incredible
partner to Providence, but during this investigation, their support was invaluable.
I introduced Colonel and State Police Colonel Weaver.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
My name is Colonel Darnel Weaver, the Superintendent of the
Rhy Island State Police. I want to begin by recognizing
the excellent, excellent, and exceptional efforts of the Providence Police
Department and Colonel Oscar Perez. From the very first moments
of this investigation, the Providence Police Department has worked collaboratively
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and relentlessly day and night on this investigation while protecting
our capital city. Their detectives followed facts, developed evidence, and
pursued every credible lead. Colonel Perez's leadership has been steady
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and decisive, focused on identifying the person responsible for this tragedy.
As always, our troopers stepped up, working shoulder to shoulder
with the Providence Police and our local, state, and federal partners.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I want to give particular.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
Recognition to our detectives whose diligence and dedication contributed to
this investigation. Our detectives and division leadership operated as a
unified team, sharing intelligence, resources and expertise. This has truly
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been an all hands on deck investigation, as virtually every
trooper has taken extra shifts to help the apport the
efforts in Providence, and I have never been prouder to
be a member of the Brown State Police. This year
marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Royal State Police.
In this case stands out among one of the most
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challenging in our state's history. The share volume of digital evidence,
the complexity of the investigation, and the intense public interest
played in extraordinary demands on everyone involved. Despite that pressure,
investigators remained disciplined, methodical, and focused on facts.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We are grateful for.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
The assistance of the public, particularly those who shared our information,
provided tips, and gave us doorbell camera footage and access
to their property. We are also thankful for the ongoing
support of Rhode Islanders. We know that you have been
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with us through this entire investigation. I also want to
be very clear about something else. Criminal investigations are grounded
in evidence, not speculation or online commentary. The endless barrage
of misinformation, disinformation, rumors, leaks, and clickbait.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Were not helpful in this investigation.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Distractions and unfounded criticisms do not support this work. They
complicate it and threaten to undermine the justice we seek
for the victims and the grieving families. Despite these challenges,
good police work prevailed and we have lessons that we
can bring forward from these long days ahead to the
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Brown University community and the people of Rhode Island. Be
assured that this case reflects the law enforcement community in
what we are capable of, and that we are committed
to this state. We will continue to support the victims
in the broader community as the healing continues.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Thank you, True, thank you. Colonel. Providence is so proud
to be home to Brown.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
University, and we are committed to working together with them
in the future as they help heal their community as
we do our broader Providence community. We continue to give
condolences to the deceased and our prayers to those who
are recovering. The leader of Brown has been a great partner.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Through this whole process.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Like to introduce President Christina Paxson from Brown University.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Thank you. You know nothing can really fully bring closure
to the lives that have been shattered over the past week,
but this may allow our community to move forward and
begin a path of repair and recovery and healing. I
want to thank the dedicated law enforcement agencies that have
worked so tirelessly on this case, really around the clock,
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as well as our neighbors and others who participated in
giving tips and helping with the investigation. We hope that
this outcome tonight brings an increased sense of safety for
our community ground in the surrounding area. This has been
a period of great fear and anxiety for many people
and now perhaps some form of relief. Truly, this week
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has been devastating for our community in a number of ways,
including the experiences that members of our community have had
with being targeted by online rumors and accusations, and I
hope that this development also means an end to this
truly troubling activity. So we remain used on the safety
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and security of our community and in support for the
victims of this senseless violence. Now we know the public
and our own Brown community members will want to know
more about the individual now identified by law enforcement as
the suspect in last weekend shooting, and we can confirm
the following to the best of our knowledge based on
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our review in the very short time since law enforcement
authorities made us aware of this development, and we provided
this information to law enforcement as they build their case
and wrap up the investigation. So Claudium Menuel Navis Valenti
was enrolled at Brown from the fall of two thousand
to the spring of two thousand and one. He was
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admitted to Brown's graduate school to study in the Masters
of Science PhD program in physics beginning on September one,
two thousand and He took a leave of absence effective
April two thousand and one, before form withdrawing effective July
thirty first, two thousand and three. During his time Brown,
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Nuevius valente was enrolled only in physics classes. The majority
of physics classes if Brown have always been held within
the Barrison Holly classrooms and labs. Now detailed records indicating
where specific courses were held don't extend back to two
thousand and one, but we can say that physics classes
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typically require access to specialized equipment, including demonstration parts, that
are a fixed asset in some of Barrison Holy classrooms.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
So I think it's.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
Safe to assume that this man, when he was a student,
spent a great deal of time in that building for
classes and other activities as a PhD student in physics.
He has no current active affiliation with the university or
campus presence. So again, we thank law enforcement and so
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many others for their extensive work on this case, day
and night, and we look forward to a sense of
restored safety for Brown, Providence and the Rhode Island communities.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Thank you, Thank you, President Paxson the last speaker, and
then we will take your questions. As the chief of
the Brown Police Department, Chief Chapman, remember his officers were
the first to respond on Saturday, and we are so
grateful for both their immediate and heroic response and their
partnership over.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
The last five days Chief, I want to express my
ongoing prayers and care concern for our entire community. I
certainly also want to acknowledge and thank the men and
women of the Brown University Police and Public Safety for
their efforts. This was a herculean task and required a
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lot of collaboration and work, and our officers and our
public safety public safety personnel we shoulder to shoulder with
these assets. I do want to also thank all of
you who have helped citizens and law enforcement. That partnership
and collaboration means the world to us, and we couldn't
have gotten it without you, So thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Thank you. Jee well. Now, questions go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
What a lot of.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Authorities to links between Grown University and mist truth.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'll just tell you that a lot of the information
and evidence that we ended up gathering linked us to
a connection up in Massachusetts, but obviously at the mid
but uh, I feel respect to the authorities and mass
as well as the FBI.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's for them to come in.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But I'll tell you the groundwork that started in the
city of Providence by our detectives, the Detective Division under
the command of Major Opinion, as well as the federal
partners that we had in that room upstairs and atf
the FBI led us to that connection and so that
was great work, especially.
Speaker 14 (28:10):
This FBI one way and I'm that.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
And then I have a follow I think through that
particular link that you're talking about, that case is being
worked out of Massachusetts with the leadership of US Attorney
of Folly. I believe that they're having a press conference
today as well, where they'll reveal more to the general public.
At that time, I'd be I'd be remiss to start
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and kind of talk on this h to let them
kind of had first first labs to kind of be
the ones to tell.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
The public about those particular links your follow.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
As for the second person who came forward, what did
that person tell you and did that person know the shooter?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Me?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
So, yeah, Obviously I had mentioned that the last press
conference that we was a person that we wanted to
speak with.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
The work of the video collections that we had led
us to identify that there was a person that actually
encountered this individual. So he corroborated everything that we saw.
We saw our personal interest, We saw that there was
a vehicle involved when this person came in broke the
case in the sense that explained to us exactly what
we thought we had seen and put that individual at
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the crime scene. Obviously that was that was the break
because we were knew they were we were in the
right direction.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
To ensure that we were going after this individual. But
obviously to his life. Steve, thank you.
Speaker 15 (29:39):
There the loan and there the senators and components behind.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
As far as we know, Steve, he acted alone.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
No, no, that we know of.
Speaker 15 (29:53):
No, John, what was the events that led to the.
Speaker 14 (30:00):
So was he pursued there? Did he know authorities were
going after him?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
When was he last a while?
Speaker 14 (30:06):
How did that play out?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So it plays out in the sense that we obviously
I just stated, we collected all the evidence. We were
able to learn that there was a rental vehicle. We
learned about that vehicle. Uh there was financial records that
were verified by the FBI, obviously and in other agencies.
I'm sorry actually uh so another agency. So multiple agencies
that verified financial records that brought us to that site
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to know that he had actually rented a site at
the story shooting.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And then we ended up puffing.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Say when he did that, did he know the authorities
were coming or did he just go.
Speaker 14 (30:43):
And like how long had he been in.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That story that we're not we're not aware of John
in the sense that all we knew is that we
were on a man hunt and that's what he led
us to.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
So, Okay, some questions for you.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
So he graduated, He did graduate, He was around more
than twenty years ago.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
He's the last nam uses in Miami.
Speaker 16 (31:04):
But now he's here at Brian Emersity potentially also with NC.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
What do you know about what brianing vet.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Here h that's that's gonna be unknown answers.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We Uh that we have no answer as far as
that obviously came up here and care committed this horrific
incident and this tragedy, and that's all we knew. Our
our misure wants to ensure that we could find him
and bring him to justice.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
But yeah, no at this point correct.
Speaker 12 (31:27):
My follow up is, uh, of the evidence that you've collected,
have you collected and on that you you just used
in the shooting? Have you collected any type of manifestor
or evidence?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Have you plan more shot?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
So, as far as I know that as the FBI
evidence recovery team is up in Taylum, New Hampshire, and
they're collecting whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Evidence is up there.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
This happened just now, is before we came up here, Phil.
Speaker 17 (31:50):
Any criminal history, political affiliations, any social media posts, any
of that.
Speaker 14 (31:55):
Sort of thing you could report to us about.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Mistopher let nothing that I know obviously behind him.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
What you said, go ahead the white shirt? Is there any.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
Future attacks?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Nothing that we know of.
Speaker 15 (32:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (32:09):
And then way back especially to doctor football, if there
the connection.
Speaker 19 (32:13):
I know you said you can't talked too much about
the MIT, but the fact that it was a physics
professor out of MIT and then the.
Speaker 14 (32:19):
Physics building and he was studying physics.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Have you titled that up?
Speaker 19 (32:22):
And does that lead the way white target one person
in Massachusetts?
Speaker 14 (32:26):
And then I'm both last.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Year in a in projects.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
Yes, it is true that mister Bilinda was a physics
uh student.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Also we know that the MIT the victim there was
uh in that uh discipline as well. I will tell
you that there's multiple phases to an investigation. And so
now in the sense that we we know the subject,
the subject is deceased, now that investigation continues to find
out all of those answers uh to your question, certain.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
You go professor, did you go to s school with
a professor who's built the crowd as with us.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
It is believed that in Lisbon that those two individuals
attended the same university in Portugal.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You have a follow up in the back. Sorry and
then pretty sippio.
Speaker 14 (33:25):
That's going and s A, I can't give the.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
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to this individual and what occurred? So mental how knows
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Speaker 12 (35:00):
Colonel or is there a no Orman acesto of some
kind and is that providing any information about.
Speaker 14 (35:08):
A motive or anything to let.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You know there will be if we have recovery team
in for physics. I been saylim New Hampshire. At this
point we don't have any of that of why now
behind why is Saturday? That we don't know? I don't
think we know the answer that question. I think there's
a lot of unknowns would respect to motive. I mean,
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I think that the real issue here is uh. The
key was to identify this person, as we talked about yesterday.
I think there are other answers that are coming.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
But you know, once we were able to identify them,
you know, thanks to that individual who came forward, who
led us to a plate, which led us to a
rental car, which led us to a that he rented
that car in his own name.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
That really broke the case open.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
But in terms of why Brown, I think that is
a mystery. I think there may be something going on
in Massachusetts that I'm not fully familiar with because we're
working this angle.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
But I think the Massachusetts authority is being able to
share that. Yeah, I don't think we have any idea
why now, or why why Brown? Why these students, why
this classroom?
Speaker 6 (36:16):
That that is really unknown to us, and it may
become clear. I hope that it does, but it hasn't.
As a right Master Fox.
Speaker 14 (36:28):
General sixteen.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
You know that showed the second person that apparently mo
this case wide open.
Speaker 15 (36:34):
And also, mister XI, you see them disappear behind bushes.
Speaker 14 (36:39):
Was this second person following the shooter? Can you recognize him?
You can confront him? What was that interaction like.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
An alcohol That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And now we'll explain in the affidavita that the General
stated they will be released.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
But I'll give you a brief sort of explanation about that.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Uh, the person that wanted to speak with had an
interaction with this individual earlier in the day, then served
them later at that time where you just stated and
decided that he was going to encounter him and ask
them why he was inside Brown that point.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
The person the subject of interest.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Nevs actually ran he was caught up by our person
that we wanted to speak with. There was sort of
a conversation between the two of them and he's Nevs.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Asked him, why are you harassed me? And at that
point are.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
The person that broke the case? Walked away?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
And that information was critical to us because he was
able to corroborate what our detectives were seeing on video
and he was able.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
To provide a great explanation.
Speaker 15 (37:39):
Yes, why did it take a citizen to notice a
suspicious person right next to Brown.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
University and not the police?
Speaker 14 (37:45):
And also how long was the vehicle part? Where was
and was it day's hours of information?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
It appeared to be days as far as our evidence.
Why would a civilian observe that to be suspicious? It's
a great point, and I like the fact that you're
mentioned and that I'm bringing that out.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
That's that's what we should all be doing, right And.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
It's just personalities when people are more interested in finding
out what others are doing. In this particular case, this
person decided that he wanted to and I'm glad he did.
Speaker 19 (38:15):
In the back now that the suspect general, the suspect
won't be prosecuted. Can you explain what he yells in
the classrooms or America's knights or people?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Get sure a little more comfortab Was there something you.
Speaker 14 (38:27):
Know, future terrorists related? Was it something specific for the
kids in that classroom? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Yeah, Well back to that question, just for minugers to
clarify that they had an interaction in the bathroom, embarrassing Holly.
So you know, I don't know the problems. Police is
obviously not going to patrol barrass and Holly. That's a
question for frankly for Brown in their police department. So
they had an interaction there, and then our our our citizen, uh,
(38:55):
you know, followed him out because to him, as he
explained it to us, Uh, this guy did not belong there,
and and so that's why he followed him out. In
terms of what was said, I don't know any more
today than what I told you yesterday so or the
day before.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
There are some some.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Witnesses said he said nothing. There are some that say
he made a barking noise. Don't ask me. I don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And that's it there.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
There is no other spoken word beyond that that we
are aware of. As we stand before you, tonight and
we have we have spoken to everybody that we have
been able to locate who has been inside that building.
Speaker 14 (39:34):
And just a specialation in charge.
Speaker 19 (39:37):
My follow up question is, can you just be clear
to the people of Massachusetts And he said the people
in the Norfolk County investigates.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
But he did say two days.
Speaker 14 (39:45):
That we talked to the colonel of the State Lease.
Speaker 19 (39:47):
And said, I have no connection between rook Lying and
what happened here in Rabela. But now he's saying there
was a connections. So are you saying that he shot
up Brown University? Then two days later he was at
this in Brookline to shoot this m I professor and
then he just drove out.
Speaker 14 (40:04):
To Salem and be am sure for no reason.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
No, No, I think that's a great question.
Speaker 8 (40:10):
My actual statement was that we didn't see a connection
at that time, but absolutely I spoke to the colonel.
Right now, that case is being resided over by US
Attorney leoh Foley. They're having a press conference at ten
o'clock tonight. I believe I think at that time they
will speak to that particular case. I would be getting
(40:34):
a little bit ahead of my skis if I spoke
to that case without consultation with Leo Folly and her team.
As we've been in the trenches working this up to
the minute today.
Speaker 14 (40:44):
Sir, you know they were connected. Now you're saying they.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Yes, And that's how cases often go.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
I would say at that time, when when that question
was asked of me, uh, there was no indication of
a link at that time. As we've talked throughout this week,
these bread crumbs develop, and we'll see what.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
She has to say today at ten pm. If I
just want to.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Jump in here, please, I just want to jump in
here on that, because it's a good question.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
It's an important one.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
So just what everyone's mind at East was listening now,
it was he just just drive to some random storage area.
We found records with the help of the FBI and others,
that that was his storage area. So he rented a
car in Boston, he drove it. We were able to
find that car in New Hampshire. We were able to
(41:37):
find evidence in the car from looking at it from
the outside that connected this individual to our crime scene
here in Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
We were able to find.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Visual evidence of him inside that storage facility, which in
my judgment, matches.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Into the Massachusetts.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
So you'll hear mor as the special agent said, But
there is no question that that was his storage unit,
that he had a particular car that we found that
car because of this citizen coming forward and giving us
a description of the car, and then our individual who
came forward, we knew he was telling the truth because
we could see it on the videotape. And so that
(42:16):
was a series of things that broke this case, and
that led us to Salem, where the where the suspect
was found dead.
Speaker 8 (42:23):
Step Steph.
Speaker 14 (42:27):
He providence for and when he.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Doesn't, I can guess that he will be an anthetheta.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
But he he didn't fly into all providence, I believe
earlier I've told her, I believe.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
That's the right day. Uh and uh, what was the
other question? I'm sorry, Stiff, you don't know the.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Answer to that stuff as we stand here right now.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
That that's but what we do know is that he
was moving around New England in that October, November and
December area. Remember we just have We know that there's
a body in New Hampshire. We know that there are
guns at the scene. It still remains to be examined.
Comparing those guns to the ballistics evidence we have in
(43:21):
Rhode Island, and I imagine they'll do that in Massachusetts.
But again that's somebody else's investigation. And then of course
we want to make sure that we match the DNA.
But but we are confident that this is our target
and that this case is closed from a from a
perspective of pursuing people involved.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Instead just I think, especially Asia Duck stated, obviously we
didn't know who he was, and so it's very difficult
to know what a person did prior without any to
who that person is.
Speaker 14 (43:58):
It sounds like I'm from everything everybody say. And then
the question if people were speak to you as a
fro in this in.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
This story in a lot of way, absolutely, Uh.
Speaker 14 (44:07):
Do you know that there's a fifty thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
You meet that the reward.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
Again, I will say that, uh, in this particular uh situation, Uh,
that individual will likely uh get absolutely some aspect out
of of that award.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
We've had a lot of other.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
Tips I will tell you as well that have come
in from the public, and so I don't deal typically
with the distribution of those those uh rewards, But I
mean it would be logical to think that absolutely that
that individual would uh be a title to some of
that reward.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yes, so second second row red shirt, go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
You.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
Suspects the colonel.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Well, we know if he left for Providence and committed
a homicide in another in another s state and that,
but we don't I'm try leave.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
When he left. That's why as far as we know
that he left with we didn't.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
I believe his last activity was obviously when we found
out he was in another state from in another contry.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Pat that's for college radio.
Speaker 20 (45:12):
Uh throw the shout for all of you with particular
regards to rive University of President. A recurring theme for
the last few days has been an outrage ultimately successful
in the people over An Island and.
Speaker 14 (45:23):
The people of New England to track this individual down.
Speaker 15 (45:26):
Well at the same time, who got this sort of
passive aggressive criticism of individuals who are being actively abs
to engage via social media, who are wildly starting rumors
some of which couldn't have possibly emanated anywhere than law
enforcement and I go up a follow So they would
like to respond to that, I mean, it's it's it's
kind of condescending to a lot of people I know,
(45:49):
cover idea that you're confused that Scott a common.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
But the we're moving on current, no current with that
information that ran, like.
Speaker 14 (46:02):
Was it online or or with that person to come
forward online.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
There was a tip that was placed online and obviously
we were doing our due diligence to find out who
that tips there was and then we were able to
identify this person who wanted to speak with and then
we learned that that person was actually the same person
that put the tip on that up the Yeah you're
speaking about Brian, it was the same person that that
(46:28):
we brought into the police station to speak with.
Speaker 21 (46:31):
The beginning where you can see mister Volante's space, where
were those images taken from that.
Speaker 5 (46:37):
Take him from the con rental business place that that
we learned about that No.
Speaker 21 (46:44):
President Paxson, if you could go if the situation is
described that you have the suspected gunman and this other
person had an encounter in the engineering building hours before
the shooting. I had been told by an employee that
there had been concerns at Brown previously about people.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
Getting in the building and you heard those and was
anything done.
Speaker 14 (47:07):
To address those concerns about people getting into the building?
Speaker 12 (47:11):
Yeah, I mean that's a really good question. I think
we're gonna have to look back and say, you know,
we don't know how this person got in. We don't
know when they came in. We do know that the
building was unlocked that day for exams, and that's something
we're gonna have.
Speaker 14 (47:27):
To concerns from staff members in the past.
Speaker 12 (47:30):
I had I have not personally heard concerns, but yeah.
Speaker 18 (47:34):
Then, President of Passing Dan Jay from NBC ten, I
want to go back to the question I asked you
Saturday night when I first arrived on the scene. There
were no cameras in this building, and law enforcements, some
that are standing up behind you have said if Brown
had cameras in that part of the building, we would
have gotten this guy.
Speaker 14 (47:58):
And it may have stopped this.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Can you answer that question for me?
Speaker 12 (48:03):
Well, I don't think we have said the locations of
cameras at Brown.
Speaker 14 (48:07):
We have because why would they take it from a
rental car agency.
Speaker 12 (48:11):
We have twelve hundred cameras at Brown, but not in
that building. We have some in that building. It's a
large complex, and I think what you would see is
the video evidence in this case. From my perspective, I'm
not a law enforcement agent has been incredibly helpful the
moving of the person around the neighborhood. Those video images,
(48:32):
they helped craft this case. So I think video was important.
And as the Attorney General explained at a recent press conference,
this individual was not spending his time on the Brown campus.
He came into a building on the edge of the campus.
He left, He was in the neighborhoods. The investigation focused
on the neighborhoods. The video was there and that was
(48:54):
really really instrumental in cracking the case. But you can
ask them.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
From president and say the podium, Yes, video played a
big role in this case.
Speaker 17 (49:05):
The neighbor's video, the rental car video, not the video
from the building that he walked in freely, both before
when he got in a confrontation and when he came
back in decided to kill people. You didn't have cameras
in that building, just say it so we could give
us over it.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
And my next question is will the cameras in the building?
Speaker 12 (49:27):
Yeah, you know, I I think we need to look back.
We'll look at everything that is done. But I do
not think a lack of cameras in that building it
had anything to do with what happened there and we
will go for it. Thank you, John, cos I'm hearing
(49:48):
from sources that the person that I.
Speaker 10 (49:51):
Identified the shooter had maybe a almost person that either
lived around or inside of that Barras and Holly building.
Speaker 6 (49:59):
If you could earned more about this, this person becus
and never follved for President Passion.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
I'll tell you it was a person that was pretty
authentive about his surroundings. I'll tell you it was a
person that was very cooperative and helpful to his investigations.
And I'll tell you that he was a great individual
that actually assisted us and getting us to this point
where we're at.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
I'll tell you this, he was.
Speaker 6 (50:23):
Yes, I have to say, it's incredibly articulate, and his testimony,
had we needed it, would not only have been credible,
it would have been persuasive.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
He was as outstanding a witness as I've seen.
Speaker 6 (50:40):
And he deserves a lot of credit, you know, recognizing
there's a government on the loose that the government knows
he had this interaction with him, and he didn't once
he knew that we were looking for his help.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I mean, he came.
Speaker 6 (50:54):
Forward within an hour, and that person deserves a tremendous
amount of credit. I don't know whether he's going to
get the reward or not, but if I had a voter,
he would the time you gotta follow go ahead.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
In mind.
Speaker 16 (51:09):
In October, the Brown Deliro reported that.
Speaker 14 (51:12):
You had voted around oppenens in.
Speaker 16 (51:14):
Your leadership and students were concerned all their safety and
the fact that you're prioritize the desk jobs over having
overfield jobs and having more more patrolling patrol people patrolling
the campus. Now the mind of this, do you accept
any kind of responsibility for this?
Speaker 1 (51:35):
And now that we have even need to.
Speaker 16 (51:37):
Higher warnings, are you going to reevaluate how the Round
police operated in the future now so this doesn't happen again.
At least the students can feel more safe on the
Harvest uh when they return.
Speaker 13 (51:50):
So, as I stated earlier, profoundly proud of the men
and women of public safety and profoundly proud of our
police department, we will continue with the heroic rope work
that they've done and continue to work side by side
with our partners and everything else that comes with that
is a continual effort to do what's best for the
(52:13):
safety and security of our campus.
Speaker 12 (52:14):
But will you re read assess how the people.
Speaker 15 (52:18):
I will pay you.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
We go department.
Speaker 13 (52:22):
Every single day we work and endeavor to keep our
campus safe. Whatever that entails and all that that entails
in the back.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yes, I was a question for the pelonel.
Speaker 14 (52:34):
Let me talk a piece of U.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Two weapons were found in religious Heart that one of
those weapons of the God that was used to shoot
here is where is that?
Speaker 14 (52:43):
What we found?
Speaker 1 (52:45):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
That's all part of these continuing investigations. This just before
we came downstairs. Actually as you're watching, that was developing
up in Sailing, New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
Yes,
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