Picture of Brown university shooter

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Physics major enrolled starting 2001, PHD program

[msongs]

1. convenient he is dead nt

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. ???

[EdmondDantes_]

6. Because the bad guy never offs himself in these situations?

Not everything is a shadowy conspiracy. In fact most things aren't.

[msongs]

9. makes a tidy wrap up and allows media overkill

[Brother Buzz]

3. 24 years in a PHD program?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Noo. Only a year

[drmeow]

5. As soon as I saw the MIT professor shooting

I knew it was a grad student!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. I thought "older student"

[a kennedy]

8. And seriously, we're gonna have to increase the cameras on all campuses?? A bazillion cameras now??

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

10. Looks like he could be an insurance agent.

[flashman13]

11. I'm going to remain skeptical of all this story for a while. I need a little more other than, "we got him".

And he is conveniently dead. And he is a physics major.

[Gaugamela]

12. He looks middle aged. Pretty old to start a program in physics.

[Kaleva]

13. He was enrolled in 2001

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

14. He started a grad program at Brown at age 22. Was there only a year

[swong19104]

15. Seems to be a case of never-ending PhDing

There was a case in Stanford back in the 1980s(?) where a grad student killed his advisor with a hammer because the grad student was locked in to his PhD program like forever. And there were two somewhat similar cases at the University of Pennsylvania. A grad student ran through a talk and shot two professors, killing one (and then killed himself?). Another was just a grad student committing suicide, again because of a never-ending PhD work.