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2025-12-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Multiple dead, several wounded after mass shooting at Brown University

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-14 00:49|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1780 views ] Top

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Will be interesting to watch how quick this is handled and how quickly the shooters bkgrd data and social media comments are deleted or secured.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-12-14 02:17|| 2025-12-14 02:17|| Front Page Top

2 How could this happen in a State that has ban many comon weapons, and ranked in the top 10 for gun control?

Or was it authorized, given Brown's clear Firearm Policy Statement?
"The possession, use, or storage of Weapons or Firearms is strictly prohibited on all University Property and at University-sponsored events, except as authorized under this policy.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-12-14 02:38|| 2025-12-14 02:38|| Front Page Top

3 Chaos grips Brown University campus as police hunt gunman: 'Every minute counts'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-14 06:32|| 2025-12-14 06:32|| Front Page Top

4 [NY Post] Live updates: Person of interest in custody after deadly shooting at Brown University

Posted by Frank G 2025-12-14 06:42|| 2025-12-14 06:42|| Front Page Top

5 /\ Following the capture, Brown University was permitted to end the campus-wide shelter-in-place that it had implemented when two students were killed

This could indicate Law Enforcement is reasonably certain they have found the shooter.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-12-14 07:03|| 2025-12-14 07:03|| Front Page Top

6 It's early but I'm going ahead and rule out a disgruntled fisherman from Glenarm, Ireland.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-12-14 08:52|| 2025-12-14 08:52|| Front Page Top

7 I have taken classes and final exams in that building (it was a while ago.) I expect the killer is a student with a connection with that class, who 'snapped.' Also seems like he was familiar with handguns - even up close like a classroom it wouldn't be trivial to hit 10 people with at least critical wounds - and no 'minor' wounds.

Posted by Glenmore 2025-12-14 09:08|| 2025-12-14 09:08|| Front Page Top

8 Instapundit Glenn:
HMM: Person of interest taken into custody in Brown University shooting, officials say. Zero details, however.

UPDATE: They know more than they’re telling. And I think I know why they’re not telling. I think you do too.

Posted by Frank G 2025-12-14 11:05|| 2025-12-14 11:05|| Front Page Top

9 Oh. The shooting occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg...who is Jewish, part of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies?

That seems like it might be incredibly relevant. x.com/lookner/status…

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-12-14 12:22|| 2025-12-14 12:22|| Front Page Top

10 "...the motive will remain a mystery to the authorities."

At what point do we start to treat the authorities as engaged in conspiracy to obstruct?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-12-14 12:27|| 2025-12-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

11 I’m betting Portuguese.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-12-14 13:24|| 2025-12-14 13:24|| Front Page Top

12 Door#1 — illegal immigrant
Door#2 — Islamic terrorist
Door#3 — transgender grad student

Posted by Airandee 2025-12-14 14:33|| 2025-12-14 14:33|| Front Page Top

13 Apparently, he shouted something:
#1 - Beat Cornell!
#2 - "I'm feeling oppressed"
#3 - ~~Allahu Akhbar~~ God is Great

Posted by Frank G 2025-12-14 14:51|| 2025-12-14 14:51|| Front Page Top

14 NHPR reports:

Rachel Friedberg, a Brown University economics professor, said Saturday’s mass shooting at the school happened at a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course.

Friedberg said she was not present during the shooting. The session was led by her teaching assistants, she said, one of whom alerted her.

Friedberg then raced to Rhode Island Hospital, where an Ocean State Media reporter spoke with her. Friedberg said she heard the following account from the teaching assistant, who she said was not shot but visited the hospital to support several of their injured students.

“The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top,” Friedberg said. “He said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something — he couldn’t remember what he yelled — and started shooting.”

“Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot,” Friedberg said the teaching assistant told her. “I don’t know if they’re the only ones who got shot or not.”

Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed at a press briefing later on Saturday night that at least 10 of the 11 people shot were students, though she said she did not know what the students were doing in the building.

Friedberg said she still does not know the names of the two people that university officials say were killed in the shooting.

“I don’t know if they were my students. It’s really surreal to think about,” Friedberg said. “Just horrible.”

Friedberg declined to identify her teaching assistant by name, out of concern for his privacy. He could not be reached immediately for comment.

Friedberg is a teaching professor of economics at Brown and a faculty associate in the program for Judaic Studies. Her Principles of Economics course is the most heavily attended class at Brown, taken by half of all undergraduates, according to her online biographical notes.

No curiosity about the murderer, and only a bare mention that he shouted something. So Antifa, jihadi, or nuts

Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-14 14:55|| 2025-12-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

15 In the book Marching Orders which dealt with the declassified Japanese diplomatic traffic before and during WW2, the author showed that the consulates on the West Coast had implied 'friends' in the local Japanese communities. With 90% of aircraft production concentrated in LA and Seattle, the FDR administration lacked the ability to separate who may or may not be a threat, so they executed the 'infamous' internment of ethic Japanese.

Given what we are now experiencing, maybe its time to give the government officials at the time a little more understanding of what they were facing in trying to deal with a threat.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-12-14 15:28|| 2025-12-14 15:28|| Front Page Top

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