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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report

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Speaker 1: weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.

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Speaker 2: It looks like they finally found the Brown shooter, who

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Speaker 2: they found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire,

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Speaker 2: dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Good morning, Kooner Country. Okay,

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Speaker 2: holy Shamoli, that's all I have to say. So here

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Speaker 2: is exactly now what has taken place. Forget the last

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours, in the last twelve hours. Apparently now

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Speaker 2: they have identified the mass shooter who opened fire at

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Speaker 2: Brown University on Saturday, killing two students and wounding nine.

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Speaker 2: According now to law enforcement authorities, Boston Police in particular

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Speaker 2: and the FBI, they now believe that this man, and

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give his name in a second, is also

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Speaker 2: directly responsible and linked to the murder of the MIT physicist,

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Speaker 2: the fusion scientist who taught at MIT. Remember that physicist

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Speaker 2: was forty seven years old. He was from Portugal. It

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Speaker 2: appears that the suspect in both the Brown and the

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Speaker 2: Mit shootings is Claudio Nevez Valenti. He is forty eight

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Speaker 2: or was forty eight years old. He is from Portugal. Originally,

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Speaker 2: he came to the United States in twenty seventeen on

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Speaker 2: a diversity visa law read program. He then eventually got

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Speaker 2: a green card permanent legal resident. He is actually not

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Speaker 2: a resident of either Rhode Island or Massachusetts or New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he apparently has no connection to New England whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: He is a resident of Miami, Florida now according to

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Speaker 2: law enforcement. This is now the timeline. He arrived in

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Speaker 2: Boston and rented a car with Florida license plates. He then,

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Speaker 2: for about a twelve day period, drove down to Providence

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Speaker 2: where he was scoping and casing the campus and the university.

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Speaker 2: He had attended the university for a brief period from

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Speaker 2: two thousand to two thousand and one, in other words,

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Speaker 2: basically twenty four years ago. He attended the graduate physics program,

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Speaker 2: so he I guess he was a wanna be aspiring physicist.

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Speaker 2: They claim that the reason why he targeted the engineering

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Speaker 2: building they suspect is because he took his physics classes

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Speaker 2: in that engineering building. They don't believe that he targeted

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Speaker 2: those students specifically, whether it's Ella Cook, the young Republican

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Speaker 2: who was murdered, or the other victim who is from

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Speaker 2: whose parents are from Uzbekistan. They believe he just randomly

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Speaker 2: chose a classroom from the building that he had attended

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Speaker 2: twenty four years ago when he took several classes as

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Speaker 2: in the graduate program of physics, the physics graduate program.

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Speaker 2: Apparently he withdrew from the program. They don't know why,

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Speaker 2: but he took a few classes and then he withdrew

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Speaker 2: and they never heard from him again. As he scoped

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Speaker 2: and cased the university. He then made his move where

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Speaker 2: he launched the massacre. He then drove back to his

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Speaker 2: hotel where he then changed the license plates. He also,

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Speaker 2: when he first arrived in Boston, rented a storage unit

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Speaker 2: at an extra space storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: When he returned back from Providence after the massacre at Brown,

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Speaker 2: he then went to the home of the nuclear physicists,

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Speaker 2: the professor at MIT who apparently they knew each other.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't know how well they knew each other,

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Speaker 2: but they went to the same academic program from nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety five to two thousand. In fact, they both graduate

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Speaker 2: in Portugal. They both are Portuguese. They graduated from the

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Speaker 2: same academic program in Portugal. In fact, they both graduated

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Speaker 2: in two thousand from the very same institution. He then

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Speaker 2: went to Brookline for we have a big audience outside

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Speaker 2: of Massachusetts. Brookline is very close to Boston and by

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Speaker 2: the way, very you know, a swanky area, a very

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Speaker 2: upper middle class. Anyway, So he went in, targeted the professor,

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Speaker 2: shot the professor multiple times, eventually killing him. He then

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Speaker 2: storage facility and apparently hid there until he eventually ate

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Speaker 2: his own gun. Now, that's that's what the law. That's

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Speaker 2: what the police told us yesterday. Police what broke the

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Speaker 2: case wide open. And this is incredible. It's not all

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Speaker 2: the cameras that apparently now don't work at Brown University.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna get to that, they in some ways

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Speaker 2: deliberately don't work. And I'll get to that. It's a

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Speaker 2: homeless person who and you know, they're very territorial. Homeless

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Speaker 2: people are very very territorial. They live in a place.

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Speaker 2: This person happens to live at Brown permanently on campus,

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Speaker 2: This homeless guy, and he noticed something very suspicious about

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Speaker 2: Claudio Neves Valenti, and so he began to follow him

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Speaker 2: and he followed him back to his vehicle, and by

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Speaker 2: following him back to the vehicle, this homeless person was

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Speaker 2: able to make the make and model of the car

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Speaker 2: and even provide them with the license plate. So really

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Speaker 2: it was a homeless guy that gave the case, that

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Speaker 2: broke the case wide open. So what we have is

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Speaker 2: a forty eight year old man, an immigrant from Portugal

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Speaker 2: who is not a US citizen, who apparently, and they're

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Speaker 2: not giving us a motive, shot up Brown University and

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Speaker 2: then shot and killed the MIT professor and then fled

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Speaker 2: to Salem, New Hampshire, to his storage facility. The police,

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Speaker 2: in a manhunt, were closing in on him, the FBI,

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Speaker 2: Boston PD, the Providence Police, and apparently he killed himself

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Speaker 2: before they got on the scene. When they opened up

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Speaker 2: the storage facility, a his storage unit, forgive me, they

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Speaker 2: opened up his storage unit, they found him dead. So

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Speaker 2: this is I'm giving you the facts of the entire case.

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Speaker 2: Now let me just say this, okay, a couple of points,

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Speaker 2: and then I want to throw it open to you

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Speaker 2: the great audience. Cooner Country six one seven two sixty

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Speaker 2: six sixty eight sixty eight. Here's my initial reaction from

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Speaker 2: the heart how convenient, honestly, how convenient. So you mean

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Speaker 2: to tell me you have a guy come into a classroom,

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Speaker 2: according to multiple witnesses, shout a la hu akbar. But

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Speaker 2: it turns out he's Portuguese and this is a non

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Speaker 2: terrorist attack. It's some guy with some grievance twenty four

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Speaker 2: years ago. He left Brown and was disillusioned or disenchanted

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Speaker 2: with their physics program, and then went up and killed

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Speaker 2: the MIT professor, which is what fifty miles away Brookline

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Speaker 2: is about fifty miles away from Providence, and then very

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Speaker 2: conveniently kills himself, so we don't get to interrogate him,

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Speaker 2: we don't get to get more information out of him.

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Speaker 2: It's did he have help? Did he do it by himself?

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Speaker 2: What a motive? A reason? It's all just swept under

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Speaker 2: the rug now something. I'm sorry, it doesn't pass the

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Speaker 2: smell test. Now, to be fair, if you know anything

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Speaker 2: about Portugal, like any European country, especially Western European, Portugal

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Speaker 2: has a lot of Muslims, they just do. So maybe

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Speaker 2: this man was a Portuguese Muslim. Okay, maybe I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying he is, but it's a distinct possibility. Now, let

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Speaker 2: me make another obvious point. This is not from some

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Speaker 2: fringe website. I'm talking. These are wire services. This the

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Speaker 2: Reuters Associated Press, Yahoo News obviously, the New York Times,

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Speaker 2: USA Today, all the papers in Israel, Okay, the Washington Post.

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Speaker 2: The Israeli government was investig on American soil with the

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Speaker 2: FBI was investigating the murder of that MIT professor because

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Speaker 2: he was such a prominent nuclear physicist overseeing such a

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Speaker 2: sensitive program, and that the Israelis were becoming convinced that

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Speaker 2: this was a hit, an Iranian hit squad, but led

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Speaker 2: by the you know, overseen by the Republic of Iran

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Speaker 2: to decimate it, to retaliate for what happened that for

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Speaker 2: Doe and the destruction of Iran's nuclear program. So the

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Speaker 2: Israelis believed that this was potentially an Iranian inspired assassination. Suddenly,

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Speaker 2: now no, none of that nolled all this is all

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Speaker 2: made up. Now, I don't believe it. I don't.

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