Speaker 1: Hey, that folks did is Friday, December nineteenth, and a
Speaker 1: breaking story overnight. Police say that the man responsible for
Speaker 1: the mass shooting at Brown University is dead. But the
Speaker 1: other new information is they say he's also responsible for
Speaker 1: killing an professor. And with that, welcome to this because
Speaker 1: a little early and breaking episode here of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 1: Ropes for whatever reason was we were going to bed
Speaker 1: last night, we said, hey, we're probably gonna have to
Speaker 1: hop up again on early there was some sense that
Speaker 1: they were about to get this guy last Yes.
Speaker 2: They were teasing the news media, so to speak, earlier
Speaker 2: in the evening saying we think we have our guy,
Speaker 2: we think we know or we've identified our person of interest.
Speaker 2: And we went to bed around nine something last night,
Speaker 2: and everything broke wide open in the hours that followed
Speaker 2: into the early hours of this morning.
Speaker 1: And so we wake up this morning and a lot
Speaker 1: of you are going to be waking up and getting
Speaker 1: this news that, yes, the person responsible for the shooting
Speaker 1: at Brown University had left two students dead another nine injured.
Speaker 1: And we found out the person responsible for the shooting
Speaker 1: death of an MIT professor two days after that shooting
Speaker 1: was the responsibility all of that one man they have
Speaker 1: now identified as Claudio Manuel Nevis Valente, forty eight year
Speaker 1: old man, who was found dead of a self inflicted
Speaker 1: gunshot wound and of all places, a storage facility in Salem.
Speaker 3: New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: This story, I guess we're getting the details and starting
Speaker 1: to piece this together now, but it was kind of extraordinary,
Speaker 1: and right now we don't have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: answers as to why.
Speaker 2: No, we know a few connections that police have been
Speaker 2: able to string together. But it's even fascinating how they
Speaker 2: caught this guy in the first place. You woke me up,
Speaker 2: I think I turned over at two am and you said, babe,
Speaker 2: they got him, and he killed the MIT professor too,
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god. But I tried
Speaker 2: not to process too much of it because I wanted
Speaker 2: to go back and sleep.
Speaker 4: Which I did.
Speaker 2: But yes, waking up and seeing these details, it is
Speaker 2: fascinating because yesterday or it was the day before that,
Speaker 2: we had police come out and say, hey, we have
Speaker 2: a second person we want to find because we think
Speaker 2: this second person will help us find our person of interest.
Speaker 4: And turns out they were right.
Speaker 3: That was the right move to make.
Speaker 1: So folks we're gonna get you called up and give
Speaker 1: you the very latest about what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: But the shooter, police say the shooter is no longer
Speaker 1: out there. That shooter is dead, Cloudio Manuel Nevis Valente,
Speaker 1: forty eight years old. We're going to get more information
Speaker 1: about him. But that is the person police say we
Speaker 1: have been seeing for the past week on all those
Speaker 1: surveillance videos that they have been putting out. Then robe
Speaker 1: what yesterday, the day before, they started to focus on
Speaker 1: a person of interest that they made clear was not
Speaker 1: a suspect, but they thought interacted with the suspect at
Speaker 1: some point. I'm like, hmm, weird. How did they know that?
Speaker 1: Now the story's out, like, holy.
Speaker 4: Hell, it's fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, yes, he actually encountered the Cloudio Valente in
Speaker 2: the bathroom and he said he wasn't wearing the appropriate
Speaker 2: clothes for the weather outside, and he thought it was unusual.
Speaker 4: So I actually thought this is pretty remarkable. He followed
Speaker 4: him out rope.
Speaker 1: They say this all the time, don't aren't we trained?
Speaker 1: Now we see something out of place. This was so
Speaker 1: out of place that he took it upon himself to
Speaker 1: follow the guy.
Speaker 4: I cannot imagine doing that, but he did.
Speaker 2: He follows him out there, and then he sees more
Speaker 2: suspicious behavior because Valente goes to get into his vehicle
Speaker 2: and then just locks it and keeps walking hurriedly around
Speaker 2: the corner.
Speaker 3: He said, unlocks it with the fob.
Speaker 4: He unlocked it and then kept walking.
Speaker 3: That's weird, why would you do that?
Speaker 4: So then he followed him what around the corner?
Speaker 1: To think now, in that moment, he had no idea
Speaker 1: he was following a killer. He wasn't a killer yet
Speaker 1: that dude was armed, and he is following somebody who
Speaker 1: clearly had no problem killing.
Speaker 4: That is so eery to think.
Speaker 2: And he's probably thinking himself, Wow, I was a lot
Speaker 2: braver than I even realized, or maybe I was a
Speaker 2: lot dumber than I knew. But yes, he speed walked
Speaker 2: to follow him around the corner, and he actually confronted
Speaker 2: him and said, your car is back there, Why are
Speaker 2: you circling the block?
Speaker 4: That is very courageous, And I.
Speaker 1: Guess rome's what was he supposed to do next. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's on his mind as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Should I have alerted somebody? Should I have gone and say?
Speaker 1: But this is what I guess in our culture over
Speaker 1: the years, and go back to Columbine. Columbine, if somebody
Speaker 1: is wearing a trench coat in the summer, you look
Speaker 1: and go, wait a minute, what's that about? Like we've
Speaker 1: been trained almost and to think this guy, So this
Speaker 1: is not just I saw a guy and thought something weird.
Speaker 1: He did something about it and followed the guy. This
Speaker 1: is incredible.
Speaker 2: It is remarkable that he'd and then confronted him and said,
Speaker 2: why are you acting like this?
Speaker 4: You're acting strangely.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate the fact that maybe all of the
Speaker 2: news coverage we've had of people trying to thwart potential
Speaker 2: mass shootings or terrorist attacks like these are the These
Speaker 2: are the habits that we've hopefully instilled in some people
Speaker 2: to say, if you see something, say something, and that's
Speaker 2: exactly what this guy did.
Speaker 3: You know you say that as well.
Speaker 1: I think about the Bandai Beach shooting in Australia and
Speaker 1: to think that there was a citizen that went and
Speaker 1: disarmed that guy, like we are taking a responsibility and
Speaker 1: maybe saving lives. This guy may have saved lives. Sure
Speaker 1: in that moment, that interaction, he had no idea, but
Speaker 1: his information was key in him finding the guy. Who
Speaker 1: knows whether the damage he might have done. But this
Speaker 1: was a courageous We're gonna be hearing from this guy.
Speaker 1: He's going to be everywhere telling his story. This is
Speaker 1: I find this to be just unreal.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so after he confronted Valente and said your car
Speaker 2: is back there, why are you circling the block? He
Speaker 2: responded to him by saying, I don't know you from nobody,
Speaker 2: Why are you harassing me? And then this man goes
Speaker 2: on to Reddit and says, I'm being dead serious. Somebody
Speaker 2: needs to look into a gray nis On with Florida plates.
Speaker 2: So he took note of the car. He took note
Speaker 2: of the license plates, and that was the key to
Speaker 2: finding the suspect.
Speaker 3: Period, this and this is unbelievab. He went on red.
Speaker 1: I think he finally realized that y'all have been looking
Speaker 1: for me. And I think they said he physically went
Speaker 1: up to two officers. Yeah, yeah, and so he was
Speaker 1: key to the case. Now how did this work out?
Speaker 1: They got this witness, if you will, and then they
Speaker 1: had video surveillance video of a car that they said
Speaker 1: they could match up. They could match up the two
Speaker 1: descriptions and that's when they knew, okay, we're on to
Speaker 1: the right thing with this description of this Nissan CenTra.
Speaker 3: Was it that he had rented?
Speaker 1: Now they tracked this car this system, you know, this
Speaker 1: system that annoys all of us, certainly here in the Northeast,
Speaker 1: the one they're able to.
Speaker 3: Take a picture of your license plate.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, when they give you your a toll charge
Speaker 2: or a ticket for whatever.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of system of cameras that were able
Speaker 1: to capture the license plate on this particular car. So
Speaker 1: they were able to kind of track it and piece
Speaker 1: it together and figure out where it was going.
Speaker 2: And they knew who rented it because they were able
Speaker 2: to go search the rental records where he actually rented
Speaker 2: the vehicle and trace his his he got he came
Speaker 2: to Boston, I guess from Vegas, correct, and he rented
Speaker 2: the car in Boston, traveled from Boston to Providence, Providence
Speaker 2: back to Boston, and then eventually to Salem Brookline.
Speaker 1: Where they shot the professor, and then ends up in Salem,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: And is it Do we know that?
Speaker 2: Because because we saw what late afternoon early evening police
Speaker 2: were releasing the information that they knew who the guy
Speaker 2: was and perhaps that led to him making a decision
Speaker 2: to die by suicide at that point when he knew
Speaker 2: he was found.
Speaker 4: You're not exactly sure when he died.
Speaker 3: We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: They looked really frustrated that they even had to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that they had identified there were law enforcement sources that
Speaker 1: were leaking information and that this look this.
Speaker 2: That hinders an investigation or your ability to capture someone
Speaker 2: because they're following the headlines most likely, and if they
Speaker 2: know you're onto them, they're going to either they're going
Speaker 2: to do something erratic to evade.
Speaker 1: But you said hinder an investigation, and this investigation that's
Speaker 1: already been hindered, hampered, slowed, two people already taken into
Speaker 1: custody then released.
Speaker 3: So this has been a hell of a week for
Speaker 3: that community.
Speaker 2: It's sad because, if you think about it, the Brown
Speaker 2: University shooting mass shooting happened on December thirteenth.
Speaker 4: The MIT professor didn't die until the.
Speaker 2: Fifteenth, So it's just said those two days cost a
Speaker 2: renowned and beloved professor his life.
Speaker 1: And again we're trying to figure out the why still
Speaker 1: now the suspect was found, the authority say again, this
Speaker 1: was not in the situation where he was engaged in
Speaker 1: a firefight with police officers. They got there and they
Speaker 1: say he was dead of a self inflicted gunshot. Will
Speaker 1: and found two guns with him, and they say also
Speaker 1: other evidence that matches the scene at Brown. So again
Speaker 1: we're talking about a forty eight year old man by
Speaker 1: the name of Claudio Manuel Nevis Valente is the name. Now,
Speaker 1: who is he and what's his connection to Brown? His
Speaker 1: connection is he went to school there a long time ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two thousand to two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: He was only there for one year in a graduate program, correct,
Speaker 2: But they said he knew that building, well, that is
Speaker 2: the building he would have studied in when he went
Speaker 2: there more than twenty years ago. We also know he's
Speaker 2: a Portuguese national. And there's your connection to the MIT
Speaker 2: physics professor who is also Portuguese, Nuno Lrero, and they
Speaker 2: apparently went to school for some time together in Portugal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some elite engineering school there. That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 1: Don't know what the relationship was, but that is not
Speaker 1: a coincidence.
Speaker 3: That this took place.
Speaker 1: They always check no criminal history with this guy, nothing
Speaker 1: in his background. Last known address was Miami. He did,
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned Vegas. He had spent some time
Speaker 1: in Vegas as well. But here is another big part
Speaker 1: of this story. How did he get here in the
Speaker 1: first place? Why was he here? Well, he was a
Speaker 1: legal permanent resident of the United States. He first entered
Speaker 1: on a student visa back in two thousand, but he
Speaker 1: got permanent status through the Diversity Immigrant Visa also known
Speaker 1: as the DV one, which is now now.
Speaker 2: Yes and now Trump Christy Noman announced it has completely
Speaker 2: suspended that program, saying it is done.
Speaker 4: It is over.
Speaker 2: We will no longer be allowing people to enter our
Speaker 2: country through that program.
Speaker 1: And this has been debated over the years, and some
Speaker 1: find it beautiful. I have to argue, I'll say out loud,
Speaker 1: I think it. But what it is is just a lottery.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of countries that don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of easas to come into the US. It's literally
Speaker 1: a lottery all over the world. In certain countries, you
Speaker 1: get lucky enough, your number gets pulled out and you
Speaker 1: literally win the lottery to come to the United States.
Speaker 3: I just like that.
Speaker 2: I had the best conversation with an Uber driver who
Speaker 2: had just won the lottery from his country, and he
Speaker 2: was so grateful and so appreciative, and it was like
Speaker 2: the most wonderful uber ride I've ever had because he
Speaker 2: was just the happiest person I had met that day,
Speaker 2: maybe even that month, because he was just so grateful
Speaker 2: to be in America.
Speaker 4: So that's that's sad for a lot of folks who
Speaker 4: have actually.
Speaker 2: Benefited from and our country has benefited from their arrival.
Speaker 1: And it's fifty to fifty five thousand there. That's a small, small,
Speaker 1: small number, but it happens every year. And as small
Speaker 1: as that number is, ro Juja said an uber driver.
Speaker 1: I have known two or three people in my life
Speaker 1: who've won this lottery. You think I'd never run into somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I worked with a lady won the lottery. Wow. So
Speaker 1: this is the program it right now has stopped. So
Speaker 1: his connection to Brown you talked about there Master of
Speaker 1: Science program in physics is why he was there. But
Speaker 1: he went on leave just after attending for one year,
Speaker 1: but then withdrew officially from Brown in July of two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, so he hasn't been connected to the school,
Speaker 1: and the school they announced we have no affiliation to
Speaker 1: this guy at.
Speaker 2: All that is so bizarre, And the connection to the
Speaker 2: professor is just that they attended that same elite engineering school.
Speaker 4: And it's very confusing as.
Speaker 2: To how he somehow that much time has passed since
Speaker 2: he was in class with Nuno Lerero, Professor Lerero, and
Speaker 2: it's been decades since he's been at Brown. So what happened,
Speaker 2: what happened recently that somehow brought up some memory or
Speaker 2: some perceived grievance something that made him snap.
Speaker 1: I don't know what a deranged a killer is supposed
Speaker 1: to look like somebody who's capable of this. But the
Speaker 1: video you saw from inside the rental car place casual, cool, calm,
Speaker 1: normal looking dude. I mean, you just you don't see
Speaker 1: anything menacing until you know the background and who you're
Speaker 1: looking at. But I don't think that guy would cause
Speaker 1: alarm in looking at him.
Speaker 2: No, no, not at all, not even from the image. Actually,
Speaker 2: he just looked like your average stocky, middle aged guy. Like.
Speaker 2: The only thing that was strange is he was dressed
Speaker 2: in all black and had a black surgical mask on
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 4: But this is of note.
Speaker 2: The Rhode Island Attorney General said this very bluntly, very plainly,
Speaker 2: I don't think we have any idea why now, or
Speaker 2: why Brown, why these students, why this classroom, But everyone
Speaker 2: always wants to know the why.
Speaker 3: We have to. They'll start to piece this together.
Speaker 1: A story of some kind will emerge, but as of
Speaker 1: this morning, it has yet to do so.
Speaker 3: But stay here, folks. They gave us the update.
Speaker 1: Yes, they got the guy, or at least he's off
Speaker 1: the streets now, believe the shooter is dead. Say there's
Speaker 1: no further threat to the community, and they are not
Speaker 1: searching for anybody else. Now, that, of course, was the
Speaker 1: big headline in the big update, but we got other
Speaker 1: headlines and updates from the police about the investigation and
Speaker 1: about how the shooting victims are doing in the hospital state.
Speaker 1: Stay here, I'll have that for you right after the break.
Speaker 1: And as I'm looking at my dear robot here, we
Speaker 1: will have that for you right after the break. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: we are back here on Amy And sorry.
Speaker 2: You know I've done that before too. I'll say I
Speaker 2: or mine or meet and wait, we and hours. Sometimes
Speaker 2: I get it, it happens.
Speaker 1: It's only offensive when you do it about our home.
Speaker 1: But did you here recording a little earlier this morning.
Speaker 1: We'll still have our regular morning run for you here
Speaker 1: in just a bit with all the news headlines of
Speaker 1: the day, but this was the big breaking story overnight.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are going to be seeing this
Speaker 1: for the first time when they wake up that Yes,
Speaker 1: in fact, after about a week essentially with no answers,
Speaker 1: we do get word that the shooter in the Brown
Speaker 1: University mass shooting that killed two students injured another nine,
Speaker 1: according to police, took his own life self inflicted gunshot wound.
Speaker 1: But he was found overnight in Salem, New Hampshire, at
Speaker 1: a facility, a storage facility, so we do know this
Speaker 1: part is over now. A lot of questions, including they're
Speaker 1: saying he's responsible for that shooting of the MIT professor
Speaker 1: as well Robe, So a lot of questions to be answered,
Speaker 1: but a relief at least that he's not on the street.
Speaker 3: The update.
Speaker 1: It's positive out of the hospital, yes, at least, and
Speaker 1: you know, every single day it seems like they get
Speaker 1: we got a positive update, but this is the best one.
Speaker 1: It sounds like all if those have been shot are
Speaker 1: certainly on the way to recovery.
Speaker 2: Yes, now all six who still are in the hospital
Speaker 2: are listed in stable condition.
Speaker 4: That is remarkable. Three were treated and eventually released.
Speaker 2: So all the survivors who were wounded will in fact
Speaker 2: survive and are improving day by day by day.
Speaker 4: So that is such good news for the parents.
Speaker 2: My heart's still, oh, our hearts still go out to
Speaker 2: the parents of those two students who were just so senseless,
Speaker 2: senselessly and randomly killed by this man. I cannot imagine
Speaker 2: the pain they are in right.
Speaker 3: Now, Christmas a week from yesterday.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's obviously it wouldn't matter when they
Speaker 2: were killed, it would always be tragic. But but but
Speaker 2: but I just remember the anticipation of knowing Annie was
Speaker 2: coming home last week, and you know, just knowing she
Speaker 2: had a plane ticket to come home, and just thinking
Speaker 2: about these students finishing their you know, final exams and
Speaker 2: just getting those last study hauls in to head home
Speaker 2: for the holidays.
Speaker 4: It's just exceptionally tragic.
Speaker 3: They're gifts under the tree for those kids. That is
Speaker 3: such a there is I say.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at you, looking in the distance
Speaker 1: at Anne Lisa's room. She's in their sleep, trees, presents
Speaker 1: and this is just what the holiday was. And you
Speaker 1: know what they saw these kids. I hope they had
Speaker 1: great Thanksgivings. Right, it's a short window. You go over Thanksgiving, Hey,
Speaker 1: everybody see you in a couple of weeks. Christmas is coming.
Speaker 1: Kind of a thing. That's just horrific to think about.
Speaker 1: An update from police at least about the shooting and
Speaker 1: again ropes, there's a big debate now debate. There's going
Speaker 1: to be some I guess, some scrutiny on the cameras
Speaker 1: at that building.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of talk.
Speaker 2: There weren't many they said that because it's an obviously
Speaker 2: it's an older campus. It's one of the oldest campuses
Speaker 2: in the country. I believe the seventh oldest something like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they just haven't updated. Just because you have
Speaker 2: old buildings doesn't mean you shouldn't put cameras on them.
Speaker 2: So yes, they just haven't updated their technology with the times.
Speaker 2: And certainly this would be a glaring example of why
Speaker 2: it is so important and honestly, even as a deterrent.
Speaker 2: If people know when they're walking in every angle they
Speaker 2: are going to be their image is going to be captured,
Speaker 2: They're going to be seen.
Speaker 4: Anything they do will be reviewed and be watched.
Speaker 3: That's weird.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he was familiar he might have right then,
Speaker 1: if he knew this, because I haven't seen an image
Speaker 1: of him anywhere near that building now right, it's all
Speaker 1: been on the street, these ring cams, door cams, and.
Speaker 2: Wow, clearly he's a smart dude, so he knows or
Speaker 2: you'd think he would have known that as he was
Speaker 2: casing things out.
Speaker 1: And how did they explain that the program he was
Speaker 1: in their physics when he was enrolled there. This building
Speaker 1: houses a lot of equipment, specialized equipment that you would
Speaker 1: need if you're a physics major. And she was explaining
Speaker 1: someone from the university that we don't have records that
Speaker 1: go back that far of what classes were ware, but
Speaker 1: she said it is fair to say.
Speaker 3: He spent a lot of time in his building. Yep,
Speaker 3: he was very familiar, so.
Speaker 4: He knew it.
Speaker 2: And they found forty four shell casings in the building.
Speaker 3: This dude was firing.
Speaker 4: He was firing at random.
Speaker 2: And honestly, when you see something like that, it sounds
Speaker 2: awful to say that, My goodness, it's a miracle only
Speaker 2: eleven people were shot.
Speaker 3: Well, folks, we want to hop on again.
Speaker 1: We will have the regular morning run for you here
Speaker 1: in just a bit, but we want to hop on
Speaker 1: and get this up for you. First thing, but the headline,
Speaker 1: the breaking story, yes, is that finally it's over, according
Speaker 1: to police, the search, the fear is over. The person
Speaker 1: responsible for that Brown University shooting and the shooting of
Speaker 1: an MIT professor is dead according to police, of a
Speaker 1: self inflicted gun shot wound. We will be hearing plenty
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Speaker 1: We expect possibly some more today, but yeah, stay with us, folks.
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