Mid Day Report: Friday, December 19, 2025

The search is over for Brown University shooter suspect, the Trump Administration files an appeal on judge blocking the freezing of federal funds, and holiday travels are underway at Logan. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is wb Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Rain coming down in Boston fifty five degrees at eleven o'clock. Hello,
thanks for being with us. It's December nineteenth. I'm Sherry Small.
Here's what's happening. The deadly shooting at The deadly shooting
of an MIT professor in Brookline is directly linked to
the Brown University shooter who took his own life in Salem,
New Hampshire. Our WBC's James Rohast is in Brookline, where

(00:35):
neighbors are still coming to terms with what happened.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Brookline police have been seen driving past the apartment building
of MIT professor Nunell Lorrero the day after the body
of his killer was found inside of a storage facility
in New Hampshire. That gunman, Claudio Nevis Valente, is the
same person who killed two and injured nine at Brown
University two days before.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That wasn't something we had really thought, but you know, solve.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
This man who lives across the street from Lorero was
surprised by the connection between both shootings.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
We'll believe that it's resolved. Obviously, it's a scary thing.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
The gunman and the professor took the same academic program
in their home country of Portugal between ninety five and
two thousand. A motive is still unknown. In Brookline, James
Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
And President Trump suspends the green card lottery program that
allowed the suspect subspected shooter in the Brown University and
MIT shootings to come to the country. In a social
media post, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes says that she
is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to
pause the program. That program allows fifty thousand green cars

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to be given out each year to immigrants from countries
that are little represented in the US. Pausing the program
will likely bring about legal challenges. As for the investigation itself,
authority say an online tipster known simply as John helped
crack the case wide open.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm Lynda Kenyon. After police posted images of a person
of interest, a man known only as John began posting
on Reddit. He said he recognized the suspect and theorized
that police should look into quote possibly a rental gray Nissan.
Fellow Reddit users urged him to contact the FBI. John
told investigators he encountered the suspect in the bathroom of

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the Brown University Engineering building hours before the attack, and
noted his clothing was inappropriate and inadequate for the weather.
He also reported encountering the suspect circling the block around
the Nissan Lindy Kenyon, CBS News, and.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Now let's check the weather. We do have a high
wind warning that's in effect through three pm. That's for
the city and along the coast down to the Cape
in the Islands. Wind advisories elsewhere till one am tomorrow morning. Today,
very windy, very warm, but rainy, very heavy at times.
Watch out for some flooding on those roadways. Also in

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poor drainage areas and winds well. They could gus to
fifty to sixty miles per hour, bringing some localized damage,
also causing some scattered power outages. His though this is
the bright spot near sixty. It's going to be a
warm day, a couple of showers this evening, and then
it'll turn much colder. Overnight, skies will clear. We'll see
a low of thirty, but accu weather real field temps

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will fall into the teens tomorrow. Breezy and colder to
start the weekend. Off sunshine followed by some clouds. We'll
reach a high of forty Sunday's high forty eight, a
mix of sun and clouds, windy again, and then on Monday,
much colder. We'll see a breeze, some sunshine, but only
a high of thirty three degrees. Right now in Boston,

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where we have some rain coming down, it's fifty five
degrees at eleven oh five. Back to news. The long
arm of the law stretches from California to Florida to
nab an alleged swindler from Marblehead.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
The Sheriff of Alusia County and some of the victims
of alleged con man Robert Goodwin. We're at the Daytona
Beach Airport last night, waiting to get a piece of
their mind to the handcuffed man from Marblehead. I think
it's important that these people who you screwed over, you

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look them in the eyes. Goodwin is accused of using
his Stone and Compass travel agency to take hundreds of
thousands of dollars in deposits from high schoolers for a
European vacation that never happened. He was tracked to California
and is now being held on four million dollars bond
Rory O'Neil wb Z Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
The Department of Conservation and Recreation turns to infrared equipment
drones for counting deer populations in Quabin Park that's in
the central western part of Massachusetts. This coming after questions
from residents last summer on whether a deer hunt at
the park was necessary and if the state's methods for
counting deer were reliable. According to the State House News Service,

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DCR officials told members of the Water Supply Protection Trust
that the drones provided more precise snapshot of the deer
population and this reinforces previous surveys finding that deer numbers
were high enough to threaten forest health and justify a
managed hunt in the park. Possible name change could be
on the way for the Kennedy Center in Washington, d C.

(05:16):
The center's board voting to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
The president claiming the vote by his handpicked board was unanimous,
and there's a lot of.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Board members and they voted anatomistry.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
But by law, members of Congress from both parties sit
on the board and Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Baty, who called
into the meeting, says she would have voted against it
but was unable to.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I was not allowed to vote because I was muted.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I would not have supported this.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
A number of Democratic lawmakers and legal experts are questioning
if renaming the center is legal.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
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