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Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by zdragnar »

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #20
blast wrote: post #5

> John posted about the encounter on Reddit after the shooting Anyone have the Reddit link? (I wonder why the article doesn't include it)

This is admittedly very tangential only, but as a non-native speaker / not a US-American, I found this sentence from the NYT reporting[0] a bit confusing: > John said that the suspect’s clothing was inappropriate for the weather and that they had made eye contact. Why is the report mentioning the eye contact? Is that culturally significant, as in, in the US you don’t normally do eye contact with strangers, and if a s…

I agree with the other comments that this sentence is just poorly written.

In cities people tend to not make eye contact while walking by each other, though in smaller towns it is more common to acknowledge each other in passing.

In neither case would it be accurate to find eye contact suspicious. The sentence appears to be a summation of several things the person saw, convincing them poorly and creating the ambiguity.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by DaSHacka »

firesteelrain wrote: post #142
expedition32 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my country if the police is really serious, and I mean national crisis level of serious, they can go full China and track everyone. They have the means. Like presumably the US has doorbell camera databases and every car on the highway is electronically flagged?

Flock is around but it’s not as prevalent as some would want you to believe. At least not yet. Ring cameras and other cameras still require warrant. Same for the data that Flock collects

> Ring cameras and other cameras still require warrant. Same for the data that Flock collects

That data is now one and the same though:

https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-safety-and-ring-partn...

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by vkou »

eBombzor wrote: post #132
elif wrote: post #102

Another shooting with random or unclear motives, which conveniently fits an anti-immigrant narrative, also conveniently tied up with a bow... Don't get too caught up in the specifics of the spectacle, and take a long view of really weird coincidence.

Is there really much of an anti-immigrant narrative here?

Any crime by an immigrant or by a non-immigrant can be twisted into an anti-immigrant narrative by Trump. And this one has been.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by js8 »

noname123 wrote: post #17

I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home. But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with show…

I am not American but there was a good interview on American homelessness in TMR: https://youtu.be/osFQMTJz1w8

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by chrisweekly »

asveikau wrote: post #130
10xDev wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But resentment over what? I haven't seen anything on this.

I don't know much about the suspect, but I do know that people have been saying for years that they go into deep debt to get degrees, even in things that are supposed to be respected or in demand, and then it turns out there is actually no job market or success path for that degree. I assume the implication is it had something to do with this kind of frustration. (Though the suspect went to school two decades ago and…

"this guy's turn to violence makes me suspect he had some serious issues driving him, possibly in the mental health realm"

You "suspect possible mental health issues"? Amigo, what further evidence could possibly be required?

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Post by almosthere »

nervousvarun wrote: post #31
websiteapi wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

all of that and they basically just got lucky. the guy walked to brown from his car parked nearby and shot up some kids, waited days, went to a guy's house in Massachusetts, killed him and never even got caught - he committed suicide and was only found days after his second killing if anything this whole saga makes me happy smart people aren't killers more often because this guy basically got away...

I keep seeing this sort of sentiment everywhere and I'm trying to understand it. The same thing happened after Charlie Kirk was killed and the arrest there hinged on a confession by the killer to his dad. A lot of commentary then that the police/FBI got lucky. Ditto Mangione. They got lucky he was found in a random McDonalds. What exactly is the expectation here? Is there some sort of wide-spread belief that the worl…

I mentioned to someone that day that the person would be caught by a family member - that this stuff was looking more and more like Mangione - who was also primarily caught by his mom. That being said, the only reason family ends up ratting these people out is because of the high pressure it ends up on the family. If it turns out they find these people, and the family did not turn them in, they are going to the big house too.

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Post by SoftTalker »

alexpotato wrote: post #124
noname123 wrote: post #17

I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home. But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with show…

There was a homeless guy living in the gym at Rutgers prior to the late 1990s and it's why you had to show ID to get into any of the gyms/dorms. Very similar story of: - he was older - dressed normally - everyone assumed he was an assistant coach, grad student etc They mentioned it multiple times in safety briefings and even at "how to be a club officer" meetings to ensure that everyone participating/involved was act…

It's not uncommon. University buildings are pretty open even today. I worked with a homeless guy who was a university employee, so he had a legit staff ID card. He just didn't want to spend money on rent. He knew where the empty rooms were that nobody ever used, where the showers were.

I bet every major university has a few people living/sheltering in campus buildings.

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Post by MangoToupe »

650REDHAIR wrote: post #83
kurthr wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://kfanplus.iheart.com/content/2025-12-19-homeless-man-... It was posted on a Fox News affiliate. He won't get the reward, because he called 911 rather than the tipline.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Makes me furious, but it doesn't surprise me.

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Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by SoftTalker »

bagels wrote: post #34
websiteapi wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

all of that and they basically just got lucky. the guy walked to brown from his car parked nearby and shot up some kids, waited days, went to a guy's house in Massachusetts, killed him and never even got caught - he committed suicide and was only found days after his second killing if anything this whole saga makes me happy smart people aren't killers more often because this guy basically got away...

But they found him? If he was alive, he probably would have been caught eventually, no?

Maybe. The average homicide clearance rate in the US is only around 60%. But that includes a lot of killings where nobody really cares about anyone involved. This was a much higher profile crime so it would get a lot more attention. But there are high profile cases that get a lot of (at least local) attention that don't ever get solved either.
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