Re: The shootings, something doesn't add up.

[edhopper]

So this guy shoots people at Brown in Providence and then travels to Boston to kill someone else, and is found dead with a "self inflicted" gunshot.
I either watch to many movies, or something is fishy in this.

[drmeow]

1. If he is a disgruntled graduate student

it is quite possible the faculty member at MIT was on his committee or otherwise part of the team of faculty/researchers/grad students who he was mad at.

[TommyT139]

17. Fellow students earlier in life

They had both been at school together in Portugal, before Neves-Valente came to the US.

Fascinating story of how the Providence investigation unfolded.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26386456-affidavit/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. what doesn't add up?

[SheltieLover]

3. A little too convenient?

[Srkdqltr]

4. They , in the news conference, have not said anything .. yet .. about the Boston killing

[TommyT139]

18. There was a separate press conf for Boston

[Srkdqltr]

19. I saw that. Thats why i said yet.

Sad business .

[TommyT139]

23. Sad indeed.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. *Providence

[edhopper]

9. Spell check

[DET]

6. 48 year old immigrant

Doubt he’s a student. No discussion that I’ve heard of motive.

Correction: Apparently, he was a student in physics.

[bottomofthehill]

7. Unfortunately, it makes sense to me

Crazy person , easy access to firearms.

[edhopper]

8. What was the motive to target

These two people?

[bottomofthehill]

14. What is the motive in many mass shootings

As for the mit professor, long time acquaintance who could ID him

[Scrivener7]

28. Apparently he attended the same school as the murdered MIT professor.

And apparently, he once went to Brown.

Also, coincidentally, the MIT professor was an expert in some area of fusion. Cankles's media company is, illogically, merging with a company that specializes in fusion. Just a little weird coincidence to add to the mix.

[malaise]

10. The professor and the dead suspect are both from Portugal

The professor was murdered at home.
Makes a lot of sense - was probably welcome there. Faculty often welcome nationals from home countries.
The Brown link now - I am not sur but he had been a Brown student

Add

[Justice]

11. Was a Brown student, for PhD, dropped out.

Took classes in that building.

[dalton99a]

12. Grad school is a "publish or perish" sweatshop. Now and then a PhD student murders faculty

[Irish_Dem]

26. Exactly. Surprising it doesn't happen more often.

[Justice]

13. Attended school in Lisbon with the MIT professor

[lostnfound]

24. Where did you read that? Nt

[moondust]

15. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts

says he did both shootings.

[IbogaProject]

16. A thorough investigation would review the victims business ties

The MIT was affiliated with a fusion startup but with so many startups and lots of investments the search might be difficult to impossible.

Hmm, here is a lead I just saw. DJT media merged with a fusion power startup this week !!

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/nation-world/truth-social-media-parent-trump-technology-merging-with-nuclear-energy-company-tae

[SheltieLover]

27. Intetesting!

🤔

[Strelnikov_]

20. Unibomber

[artemisia1]

21. While I'm never one to overlook a potential conspiracy, a man entering middle age reflecting on the failure of his

hopes and dreams, rather than accepting his own responsibility in this, scapegoats the institution and people from 20+ years before. It fits a self-pitying dirtbag...

[drmeow]

29. Definitely has elements of that

although (and this is not intended to be any sort of justification at all), academia is a brutal, toxic cesspool of exploitation (I know this being a 2nd generation academic). My own PhD granting department was known as the "shark tank" for their poor treatment of graduate students. One division of my unit had to be dissolved because the faculty could not get along!

Dig deep enough into any workplace/school shooting and you are likely to find a mix of an unstable perp with (as you suggest) some elements of inappropriate external blame and a toxic environment involving bullying and favoritism.

Graduate students are often treated like indentured servants and are so dependent on their abusers that they have no recourse but to take what is dished out. Academia is a caste system as strict and brutal as any other caste system, and while grad students are not the "untouchables" (that is reserved for PhDs who stayed in academia but never had a faculty position - like myself), they are the next lowest rung. What is worse is that they like to strut around and pretend to be so egalitarian and merit based.

[Sneederbunk]

22. If it involves physics, most of us will never figure it out.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

25. Stinks to high heaven.

Or more appropriately the depths of hell.