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your support. So the manhunt for the Brown University murderer
ended at a storage locker in New Hampshire. This from
the Associated Press. The frantic search for the suspect in
last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University ended at a
New Hampshire storage facility, where authorities discovered the man dead
inside and then revealed he also was suspected of a
killing in Massachusetts of an m I T. Professor. So
I don't know if I covered them I T professor's
murder on the show.
Speaker 2: I can't recall. Uh. Stuff kind of bleeds over into
each other.
Speaker 1: I know I talked about it on live stream this
week because when the news broke that this professor had
been murdered at his home the state media out of
Iran posted the picture of or tweeted out a story
about his murder, and then you know, showed a picture
of him with the head of the i a e A.
The International Atomic Energy Agency. The i a e A,
you know, is the agency that monitors the Iranian nuclear
program that's totally for peaceful purposes, and the implication there
was that, and then there was investigations that followed and
are probably still going on as to whether or not
the MIT professor was murdered because of the attack on
Iran's nuclear facilities, like that this was retribution for the
murder of the nine Israel or Iranian nuclear scientists as
part of that twelve day war between Israel and Iran,
where you know, we flew the bomber over, or yeah,
we flew the bomber over and dropped the bombs, or
maybe there were multiple bombers I forget, and blew up
their their reactors and their centrifuges and all that, and
so there were at the time, I said, like, there
are two ways to read this, you know. Number one
is that they're claiming success for something that they did
in fact do or had a hand in, or because Iran.
By the way, this is what they do. They go
around and assassinate people. It's why you know they like
Australia uncovered a couple of plots based out of Iran,
and then they cut off all diplomatic ties to Iran
a couple of months ago. I think New Zealand did
as well. So that's one read on it, is that
Iran did have a hand in it. But the other
read on it, which is that Iran did not, but
they wanted people to think they did, because they are
so impotent that they could not do something like that,
but they want people to think they could. And I
suspect that would mainly be for a domestic audience. It
was State TV after all, right, so this is a
message they wanted to put out to their people. So
this is a way to kind of flex and say
we still got it. Like, okay, fine, they may have
wiped out our totally peaceful, civilian purpose nuclear facilities, and
they took out nine of our nuclear scientists, but we
sent an assassin and shot an MIT professor whose field
of work is in nuclear fusion and such, right, like,
look at us, we still got it. So there's and
I don't know, I'm just saying, those are the two
theories that I could conjure up just immediately.
Speaker 2: I did not think that at first.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that these two attacks would have been
related because remember the first, the first attack at Brown University,
we were hearing reports or rumors that one of the victims,
this nineteen year old girl who was like the vice
president of the campus Republicans, that she may have been targeted.
And so if that was the case, then that doesn't
seem like you would have any connection to this MIT
professor up in Massachusetts. But apparently now authorities say they
were connected, and the guy who is accused or I
guess suspected of carrying out both murders or all three murders,
because there was two there were two students that were
killed at Brown. He is a former Brown University student.
His name is Claudio Nevez Valente, forty eight years old,
a Portuguese national, so he's from Portugal, which he was
also not. The MIT professor was also from Portugal. So
the suspect was found dead last night from what appears
to be a self inflicted gunshot wound that according to
Oscar Perez, the Providence Police chief, investigators believe that Nevez
Valente is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding
nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday,
and then killing MIT professor Nuno Lorrero two days later
at his home in the Boston suburbs, about fifty miles
away from Providence. The chief said that, as far as
investigators know, Nevez Valente acted alone. Brown University President Christina
Packson said Nevez Valente was enrolled there as a graduate
student studying physics from the fall of two thousand to
the spring of two thousand and one, so twenty five
years ago. He was a grad student, and apparently he
studied at this same building where he carried out the attack,
Which would that would explain why he went into this building,
because that was one of the outstanding questions I had was,
you know, this is a Saturday. He shows up on
campus on a Saturday. How does he gain access to
the building. Why would you go and try to commit
a mass murder on a Saturday unless you had some
knowledge that maybe classes were It wasn't even a class.
It was like a study session for the final exams.
It's like an optional study class. So it seemed to me,
like somebody had to be familiar with the campus enough
to know that there would be this kind of a
study session occurring. Now, maybe he did not know that
there was a study session, and maybe he just went
to that building to try to kill anyone, right, Like
he just went to that place to try to murder
somebody at this building that he used to be a
grad student in.
Speaker 2: Don't know.
Speaker 1: He then apparently drives in a rental car up to
Boston and murders this MIT professor. So what's the connection there?
The Associated Press reports Neves Valente and Lorrero, the MIT professor,
had previously attended the same academic program at a university
in Portugal between nineteen ninety five and two thousand, so
they were enrolled at the same school, in the same
physics program at the Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal's premier engineering school.
In two thousand. That same year, Nevs Valente was let
go from a position at the university, so they were
both there at the same time between ninety five and
two thousand, and in two thousand, Nevis Valente was let
go or fired.
Speaker 2: Again. Twenty five years ago.
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have an identity now of the suspect in the Brown
University murder as well as the murder of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology professor. Police say that it was the
same suspect involved in both of the murders, a man
by the name of Claudio Nevez Valente, forty eight years old.
He was a former Brown University student. He was a
Portuguese national and he went to the same school at
the same time in Portugal with the MIT professor. He
was let go from a position at that university in Lisbon,
Portugal in two thousand, according to an archive of a
termination noticed from the school's president at the time. This
would have been February of two thousand. So how did
he end up in America? How did he end up
at Brown University? Well, he had come to Brown on
a student visa. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status
in September of twenty seventeen, so that would mean that
that was long after his student visa and his student
career was over. This would have been fifteen years after
the fact. Right, he was a grad student from two
thousand to two thousand and one, so he was in
the country for sixteen years after being a student, yet
he was on a student visa. It's not immediately clear
where he was between taking a leave of absence from
the school in two thousand and one and then getting
the visa in twenty seventeen. So it's got a bit
of a gap in the timeline. I'm sure we're going
to find out more about that in the days and
weeks to come. But he's got this, uh, you know,
the missing years. Basically, his last known residence was in Miami, Florida.
After officials revealed the suspect's identity, President Donald Trump suspended
the program that he used or benefited from in order
to get his permanent residency.
Speaker 2: I have it here. I thought I had it here.
I printed it out.
Speaker 1: It's got to be someplace in my stack of stuff
because it's like the Green Card lottery or something. Yeah,
it's in here. I'll find during the break. Which is
pretty amazing. I was unaware that this program exists. But
the Green Card lottery program where they basically just pick
your name like out of a hat, I mean it's well,
it's like the computer randomly generates the winners and then
you won the lottery. Congratulations, Now you have permanent residence status.
But that was sixteen years after he took the leave
of absence from Brown University.
Speaker 2: So how did they track this guy down? Would you believe.
Speaker 1: It was a Brown University student or former student who
was homeless and living in the basement of the school
building that was the break in the case. Police credited
a person who had several encounters with Nevez Valente for
providing a crucial tip that led authorities to him. December sixteenth,
so this would have been three days ago. The tip
Command Center received information from an anonymous source referencing a
Reddit post. Okay, so somebody is on a subreddit for Providence,
Rhode Island. I think they're calling this guy John. The
then anonymous tipster.
Speaker 2: Stated.
Speaker 1: The reddit poster said they suspected the shooter was walking
in the area. Investigators obtained a copy of the reddit post,
and here is what the reddit post said quote, I'm
being dead serious. The police need to look into a
gray Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. That was
the car he was driving. It was parked in front
of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historical Society
on the Cook Street side. I know because he used
his keyfob to open the car. He approached it and
then something prompted him to back away. When he backed away,
he relocked the car. I found it odd. So when
he circled the block, I approached the car, That's when
I saw the Florida plates. He was parked in the
section between the gate of the Rihs and the corner
of Cook and George Streets. So that was the That
was the Reddit post, and other users of Reddit then
started urging John to tell the FBI, and John did.
John said he had encountered him earlier hours earlier in
the bathroom of the engineering building where the shooting occurred,
and noticed he was wearing inappropriate clothing for the weather. Again,
bumped into Neves Valente a couple blocks away and saw
him suddenly turn away from a Nissan Sedan when he
saw John. So that's from the affidavit that I just
read to you from the Reddit post. So he was
describing that. But that was the second time he had
encountered this guy. The first time was in the bathroom
in the building that John was squatting in.
Speaker 2: Okay, that didn't sound right, but you get the idea.
He was right.
Speaker 1: Apparently he's homeless, and so he was living in the basement,
which like that raises some more questions about Brown University's management,
but we're gonna move on. The tip pointed investigators to
a Nissan CenTra with Florida plates that enabled Providence police
to tap into a network of more than seventy street
cameras that are operated around the city by a surveillance
company called flock Safety. Make sure I pronounced that one correctly.
Really enunciate L you know, just for FCEC purposes Flock Safety.
Those cameras track license plates and other vehicle details. After
leaving Rhode Island, Providence officials say nevz Valente stuck a
main license plate over his rental car's plate to help
conceal his identity. Then they get the footage of Nevez
Valente entering an apartment building near the MIT professor's building
in the Boston suburb. About an hour later, he's seen
entering Salem, New Hampshire at the storage facility, and that's
where he is found dead because they got cameras at
the storage facility as well. Brown officials say there are
twelve hundred cameras on campus, but the attack happened in
an older part of the engineering building that has few,
if any cameras well, we know because they provided a
map of their camera coverage area, like why would you
do that? But also there's all dead zone around the
engineering building, and there are rumors and theories out there
that Brown University took down their cameras because of the
ice raids. They were like, we don't want any of
the protesters or obstructors, you know, or or we don't
want to allow ice to get access to this stuff,
so they blinded their cameras or they were blinding their
cameras during the Tenttifada and the protests against Jews and
all of that. Either way, they took the if that's true,
which a reporter was grilling the Brown University president on
the other day, just you know, did you take down
the cameras? And either way, if either of those scenarios
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Mitch on the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick.
Gmc mitch texts in and says, the least surprising thing
about the Brown situation is that a Brown student and
or graduate is homeless.
Speaker 2: I would say, I'd just.
Speaker 1: Say that a Brown grad couldn't find gainful employment.
Speaker 2: That's a eye kid.
Speaker 1: Brown is a very good school, Okay, but that does
actually remind me. I saw this from one of the
most hilarious accounts on Twitter named Jarvis Jarvis Underscore Best
is actually the Twitter handled Jarvis Underscore Best Jarvis Best,
and he says, Uh, my entire life, I have dreamed
of being a hobo redditor who travels from town to
town solving mysteries. But this guy just falls into it. Yeah,
and then somebody did some AI graphic about like the
homeless detective or something living on the streets solving crimes.
Speaker 2: Now I will say this is from a g. Hamilton,
also on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He says, pointing out that CBS News has well has
turned a corner. It seems under the leadership of Barry Weiss.
And I'm going to get to this as well. Barry
Weiss from the Free Press, not a conservative. I'm not
touting her as a conservative, but but she has a
different approach to news gathering, and so they put her
in charge of CBS News and the way they have
like it seems like there has been a pretty significant
and observable shift in the stories that they are.
Speaker 2: Focusing on, this being one of them.
Speaker 1: All Right, So after they found out that this guy,
Nevez Valente was in the country on a student visa,
and then sixteen years after he leaves Brown University, don't
know what happens to him, don't know what he's doing.
Sixteen years and then he wins the Green card lottery
in twenty seventeen and he becomes a permanent resident. In
response to this information, President Donald Trump suspended the Green
card lottery program.
Speaker 2: So what is this?
Speaker 1: Well, interestingly enough, in February this year, Representative Mike Collins,
Republican from Georgia, introduced the Security and Fairness Enhancement for
America Act of twenty twenty five. And the idea here
was to scrap this program altogether. So this is from
Fox News at the time. Republican lawmakers are seeking to
end a government program that undermines national security quote unquote
by allowing a quote faceless computer code to randomly distribute
visas to migrants through a lottery system, the Diversity Immigrant
Visa Program. They call it the DV program, But I
don't see why you would call it the DV program
unless you're because it's the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, So
it would be the div P or the DIVOP as
I would call it. But this is the Green card lottery.
Republicans tried to end this thing. It did not pass.
It's run by the State Department. It holds an annual
lottery where up to fifty five thousand green cards are
given out to immigrants, who are then granted permanent resident
status through a randomized draw. This program was actually established
in nineteen ninety. The program has been in political debate
for years among lawmakers who have raised national security concerns
over randomly choosing migrants to receive residency rather than going
through a merit based selection process. Now, according to the
government's website, they vet all of the people that get
the lottery tickets here. But Congressman Collins said, quote, the
Diversity Visa Program is a needless exercise in government virtue signaling.
We've opened our country up to an almost endless system
of chain migration while throwing a dart at the globe
and letting faceless computer codes determine a path to citizenship
for fifty thousand immigrants per year. To apply, the applicants
have to come from countries that have historically low rates
of immigration, like Portugal. Right they also have to complete
at least a high school education. In twenty seventeen, several
Republican lawmakers raised concern over the visa lottery after one
of the winners, Sefulo Sapov, a terrorist who has granted
residency through the program back in twenty ten, who then
went on to kill eight people in New York by
driving a truck into a crowd on Halloween. That was
twenty seventeen. By the way, twenty seventeen, when the Republicans
tried to dismantle this program, that's when Valente got his
lottery ticket same year. Oh and there's another accused terrorist,
Akayed Ulah, who was also granted a visa through the program.
Ryan Walker, Heritage act and executive vice president at the time,
said issuing visas based on arbitrary diversity quotas undermines national security,
restricts opportunities for skilled talent, and fails to foster true diversity. Yeah, Like,
the only criteria here is that you have a high
school diploma or the equivalent. I guess, and you come
from a country that historically doesn't have a high immigration
rate into America. Like that's the criteria. Why what's the
point of that? Diversity is our strength? I guess that's it.
Speaker 2: It's bizarre.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no reason to be handing out these lottery tickets.
Doesn't make any sense, especially now that we've got several
people that have won these tickets and then have gone
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from Allan, what will the President's response be to Ron
if it's proven to be behind the MIT killing. I
know you're eventually going to get to that, so I need.
Speaker 2: To be patient.
Speaker 1: Well I just got to it, Alan, and I had
not considered that because until last night it was a possibility.
But now it does not seem to be the case.
Now maybe facts get uncovered that reflect otherwise.
Speaker 2: But I don't know why Iran, you know.
Speaker 1: Would send an assassin after the target at MIT. Now,
maybe they found a guy who had a previous beef
with Brown University, and so he's like, well, you know,
I'm going to go and assassinate this this nuclear scientist guy,
this professor but you know what, I'm on my way
from Miami up to Boston, I might as well, you know,
make a detour through.
Speaker 2: Through Brown and you know, murder.
Speaker 1: Some innocent people, some students on the campus because you know,
I don't like them, or don't like the campus.
Speaker 2: Or something like, I don't know to once again, in
any kind.
Speaker 1: Of situation like this, In all these cases, I always
urge people to keep in mind that you're approaching it
from a rational, sane perspective, and so you're trying to
figure out the why, right, And with most of these
people that commit these types of acts, they are not
sane and they are not rational. So our explanations that
we can come up with never I should say never,
but rarely line up with their delusions. It's very difficult, right,
And when you hear like even times when they tell
you like this is why I did it, Like, for example,
my next door neighbor's dog was telling me to go
murder people, right, Berkowitz like that, that's insane And how
easy if that story were to emerge today, How easy
would it be for everybody to say that couldn't possibly
be true. Somebody must have hired this guy to do it.
He's probably working for somebody, or there's some other reason
for it or whatever. Nobody wants to accept that the
person is insane and irrational carrying.
Speaker 2: Out these acts. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's an investigation going on. I saw a
report that the Israelis are looking into the are looking
into this to see if there are any connections, because
they've got fantastic intel over in the Middle East, so
we'll see. And then there's this story Bill Malugin from
Fox News ICE confirms that a murder suspect arrested for
shooting and killing a man in Reston, Virginia is a
Salvadoran illegal alien who had just been released from the
Fairfax County jail the day before, and he had an
ICE detainer on him, and the ICE detainer was ignored.
This was a policy decision made by the sheriff, Stacy
Kincaid when she first won in or well, I shouldn't
say when she first won, because I don't know when
she was first elected, but she made this decision in
twenty eighteen. Do you remember our own sheriff, Gary not
my fault McFadden, as well as like three or four
other sheriffs up in Durham and Bunkham and Wake. That
was the same year they all won election promising the
very same type of non cooperation with ICE. At the time,
she issued the statement saying, after the date of termination
the fair Fed which was May twenty third, twenty eighteen,
the Fairfax County Sheriff saw will not honor any requests
to detain individuals subject to an administrative detention request unless
there is a corresponding, lawfully issued criminal detainer. Does that
sound familiar. It should. That's the exact same thing that
not my fault McFadden has been saying for the better
part of eight years. Luckily, in North Carolina, unlike in Virginia, here,
our legislature passed a series of laws that McFadden kept
trying to dodge and skirt and find loopholes in, so
then they would come and pass another law. They passed
a series of law to force him to do what
he should do as the top law enforcement officer of
Mecklenburg County, which is to cooperate and honor these detainer requests. Virginia,
no such luck, and now a guy is dead. They
picked up this twenty three year old Marvin Morales Ortes,
a citizen of l Salvador, was arrested following a man
hunt after a man was found shot and killed inside
of a home in rest in Virginia. Morales Ortes had
been in Fairfax County jail while facing charges for brandishing
a gun and assaulting and injuring somebody, but he was
released when the case was dropped. Why was the case dropped, Well,
the victim told police that they were out of the
country and would not be coming to court to cooperate
in proceedings. So without the victim's necessary testimony, they could
not move forward with the case. And so Ice says, hey,
this guy's got a rap sheet. He's a criminal, illegal alien.
Hold on to him. We'll come get him. And the
Virginia Sheriff's Office said pound sand Ice, and they released him.
If you get a criminal detainer, which doesn't exist. By
the way, these criminal this immigration system. It's a civil proceeding.
These were administrative warrants. This has never been an issue
until Democrats chose to go down this path and try
to be a little clever by half find the loopholes
in the laws, or it got to be criminal, not civil,
and all of this after his release, I say, I
said that their detainer to transfer him to their custody
was ignored.
Speaker 2: After his release.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Fairfax County Police said an emergency custody order
was obtained for Morales Ortez due to mental health slash
danger concerns. They looked for him to take him into custody,
but they couldn't find him. He's accused of committing the murder.
Just hours later, he's got a rap sheet showing he
has been charged with at least seven crimes since twenty twenty. Again,
these are choices. These are choices that Democrat leaders have
made in various jurisdictions that they control, voters that put
them there, chose to put them there, and until they
choose to remove them, you will get more of this crap.
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