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

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Post by jmyeet »

There are going to be many, many questions about this because a lot of it doesn't make sense and doesn't fit any profile.

School shootings in particular and mass shootings in general tend to follow a particular pattern. Usually the shooter has no intention of escaping or otherwise leaving the scene. Usually they are killed at the scene either by the police or by their own hand. Some do escape but it's rare.

So this shooter allegedly escaped the scene and then a couple of days later went on to kill one particular researcher at a different college 50 miles away in what looks like it was targeted and planned.

These are two very different crimes.

And then the shooter commits suicide?

If the MIT researcher was a target, why commit a mass shooting prior? If the mass shooting was the goal, how do we explain the planning and intent of the second attack? And why wasn't that a mass shooting?

Was it the same gun in both attacks? If so, why weren't the incidents linked sooner? If they were different guns, that too raises questions.

In case it wasn't clear, the MIT attack was cased for at least 2 weeks prior.

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

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Post by tucnak »

throwaway12531 wrote: post #117
Aliabid94 wrote: post #14

Worth noting that a partner at Sequoia (Shaun Maguire) publicly accused the wrong guy of being the shooter. https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-b...

I can't express how puzzled I am that Maguire is still at Sequoia. Forget cancellation; anyone should be free to say whatever they want. This is about judgment, humility, discretion and dare I say empathy, which are fundamental skills in any investment process and which a partner at the most storied venture fund in the word ought to have. In what world is it good or right to dox a random undergrad based on speculatio…

> This is about judgment, humility, discretion and dare I say empathy, which are fundamental skills in any investment process

I'm sorry, don't take this the wrong way, did you smoke pcp before writing this?

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

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Post by tucnak »

lawlessone wrote: post #53
UncleMeat wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole VC industry is poison at this point.

It's like a lottery for rich people.

Why are you downvoted? VC's mostly give money to rich kids from prestigious schools. VC's basically hate the poor and want nothing to do with them.

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

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Post by duskdozer »

laidoffamazon wrote: post #61
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…

My assumption is most Ivy leaguers (specifically undergrads) generally have no monetary constraints after graduating so this very much reads to me as a bohemian “by choice” decision to be more interesting than an actual tragic story.

People have such an odd belief that the Ivy League is all trust-fund babies, even though for years and years, these schools have shown that they recruit disadvantaged people and make it affordable for them to attend.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

firefax wrote: post #223
musicale wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Graduate student violence is more common that it should be. For example, you hear about suicides every year. I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academic power over their students' futures and financial power over their livelihoods. (And switching supervisors, even at th…

>I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academic power over their students' futures and financial power over their livelihoods. I dropped out of a PhD -- took the master's I earned for coursework, did my quals so it would be clear I chose to leave, then took an "academic-is…

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

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Post by duskdozer »

mothballed wrote: post #175
olalonde wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or unless they exercise their right to remain silent.

Yes but if you do it wrong then your silence can be used against you. And if you ask for a lawyer slightly incorrectly then that doesn't count either.

Well, how exactly were they supposed to know he wanted a lawyer and not a lawyerdog, whatever that is? I don't even think that's a real thing! Clearly the suspect was crazy.

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

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Post by corimaith »

somenameforme wrote: post #168
laidoffamazon wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My assumption is most Ivy leaguers (specifically undergrads) generally have no monetary constraints after graduating so this very much reads to me as a bohemian “by choice” decision to be more interesting than an actual tragic story.

This is definitely incorrect. If you graduate with a low-value degree from an Ivy League, you're still going to be just as unemployable as somebody that graduated from Party U with a low value degree. The only real difference is that at top schools there are less people that are completely directionless in life (since you're less likely to get admitted in such a case) so if somebody is graduating with e.g. a philosop…

There are plenty of directionless people in Ivy League who aren't emotionally invested in the paths their parents sent them, they just go into Finance or Consulting. And in those places, pedigree does matter alot, the actual skills are not as important as the cultural compatability.

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

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Post by astura »

blitzar wrote: post #207
astura wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That says he's a reddit poster, not a Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building.

A lot of reddit posters live in basements, a subset of which are in the engineering building.

Most Reddit posters are children. What of it? How does "he was a Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building" follow?

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

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Post by tayo42 »

websiteapi wrote: post #15
Glant wrote: post #2

I live in the area. Crazy how many helicopters and drones showed up so quick and how many police there were. For several hours more and more police and FBI vehicles kept arriving. Probably ended up with close to 100 officers on scene. Salem NH PD, Methuen MA PD, Providence RI PD, NH state police, MA state police, FBI, and US Marshal service were the ones I saw. I think it's the biggest response I've personally seen s…

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...

50% of murders are unsolved
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