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Finally: ‘Suspect of Interest’ Reportedly Identified in Brown University Shooting

Posted on | December 18, 2025 | No Comments

After six days of double-talk and obfuscation, at last authorities in Rhode Island claim to have gotten a clue about the killer:

Law enforcement is investigating possible connections between the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday afternoon and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later, sources tell CBS News.
Prior, multiple sources familiar with the investigation at Brown University told CBS News on Thursday that a person of interest has been identified in the deadly mass shooting.
Law enforcement has identified a person, and a search for that individual is underway, the sources said.
Two students were killed and nine more were wounded when the gunman opened fire Saturday afternoon inside a classroom on the Ivy League university’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building during final exams.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police said a male suspect had managed to escape from the building. In the hours and days that followed, police and the FBI released images and videos of the man they described as a person of interest walking around a nearby neighborhood several hours before the first 911 calls reporting the shooting came in.

Matt Vespa at Townhall is understandably skeptical:

Of course, the suspect isn’t identified, so we’re going on ‘trust us, bro’ from the police.
“I don’t know” was often said, along with word salad, and, at times, anger that some questions, like why a student assistant at Brown was being scrubbed from the websites during this probe, were being asked. . . .
[G]iven this week, prepare for the circus to continue, as no one in Rhode Island seems to know what they’re doing.
We have a university president, Christina Paxson, who’s a deer in the headlights, being incapable of providing direct and clear answers on various lines of inquiry, specifically and camera system and the use of the school’s alert system, a police chief who couldn’t seem to find any leads, and a state attorney general, Peter Neronha, who was equally useless. The mayor, Brett Smiley, whined about being tired. It’s a mess.

There’s supposed to be a press conference soon, and I may come back to update if this involves actual news. Big “if” there.



 

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