Brown manhunt ends with at a storage locker raid (12-19-2025--Hour1)

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I know I talked about it on live stream this week because when the news broke that this professor had been murdered at his home the state media out of Iran posted the picture of or tweeted out a story about his murder, and then you know, showed a picture of him with the head of the i a e A. The International Atomic Energy Agency. The i a e A, you know, is the agency that monitors the Iranian nuclear program that's totally for peaceful purposes, and the implication there was that, and then there was investigations that followed and are probably still going on as to whether or not the MIT professor was murdered because of the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, like that this was retribution for the murder of the nine Israel or Iranian nuclear scientists as part of that twelve day war between Israel and Iran, where you know, we flew the bomber over, or yeah, we flew the bomber over and dropped the bombs, or maybe there were multiple bombers I forget, and blew up their their reactors and their centrifuges and all that, and so there were at the time, I said, like, there are two ways to read this, you know. Number one is that they're claiming success for something that they did in fact do or had a hand in, or because Iran. By the way, this is what they do. They go around and assassinate people. It's why you know they like Australia uncovered a couple of plots based out of Iran, and then they cut off all diplomatic ties to Iran a couple of months ago. I think New Zealand did as well. So that's one read on it, is that Iran did have a hand in it. But the other read on it, which is that Iran did not, but they wanted people to think they did, because they are so impotent that they could not do something like that, but they want people to think they could. And I suspect that would mainly be for a domestic audience. It was State TV after all, right, so this is a message they wanted to put out to their people. So this is a way to kind of flex and say we still got it. Like, okay, fine, they may have wiped out our totally peaceful, civilian purpose nuclear facilities, and they took out nine of our nuclear scientists, but we sent an assassin and shot an MIT professor whose field of work is in nuclear fusion and such, right, like, look at us, we still got it. So there's and I don't know, I'm just saying, those are the two theories that I could conjure up just immediately. I did not think that at first. I didn't think that these two attacks would have been related because remember the first, the first attack at Brown University, we were hearing reports or rumors that one of the victims, this nineteen year old girl who was like the vice president of the campus Republicans, that she may have been targeted. And so if that was the case, then that doesn't seem like you would have any connection to this MIT professor up in Massachusetts. But apparently now authorities say they were connected, and the guy who is accused or I guess suspected of carrying out both murders or all three murders, because there was two there were two students that were killed at Brown. He is a former Brown University student. His name is Claudio Nevez Valente, forty eight years old, a Portuguese national, so he's from Portugal, which he was also not. The MIT professor was also from Portugal. So the suspect was found dead last night from what appears to be a self inflicted gunshot wound that according to Oscar Perez, the Providence Police chief, investigators believe that Nevez Valente is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday, and then killing MIT professor Nuno Lorrero two days later at his home in the Boston suburbs, about fifty miles away from Providence. The chief said that, as far as investigators know, Nevez Valente acted alone. Brown University President Christina Packson said Nevez Valente was enrolled there as a graduate student studying physics from the fall of two thousand to the spring of two thousand and one, so twenty five years ago. He was a grad student, and apparently he studied at this same building where he carried out the attack, Which would that would explain why he went into this building, because that was one of the outstanding questions I had was, you know, this is a Saturday. He shows up on campus on a Saturday. How does he gain access to the building. Why would you go and try to commit a mass murder on a Saturday unless you had some knowledge that maybe classes were It wasn't even a class. It was like a study session for the final exams. It's like an optional study class. So it seemed to me, like somebody had to be familiar with the campus enough to know that there would be this kind of a study session occurring. Now, maybe he did not know that there was a study session, and maybe he just went to that building to try to kill anyone, right, Like he just went to that place to try to murder somebody at this building that he used to be a grad student in. Don't know. He then apparently drives in a rental car up to Boston and murders this MIT professor. So what's the connection there? The Associated Press reports Neves Valente and Lorrero, the MIT professor, had previously attended the same academic program at a university in Portugal between nineteen ninety five and two thousand, so they were enrolled at the same school, in the same physics program at the Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal's premier engineering school. In two thousand. That same year, Nevs Valente was let go from a position at the university, so they were both there at the same time between ninety five and two thousand, and in two thousand, Nevis Valente was let go or fired. Again. Twenty five years ago. All right, if you're listening to this show, You know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 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We have an identity now of the suspect in the Brown University murder as well as the murder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Police say that it was the same suspect involved in both of the murders, a man by the name of Claudio Nevez Valente, forty eight years old. He was a former Brown University student. He was a Portuguese national and he went to the same school at the same time in Portugal with the MIT professor. He was let go from a position at that university in Lisbon, Portugal in two thousand, according to an archive of a termination noticed from the school's president at the time. This would have been February of two thousand. So how did he end up in America? How did he end up at Brown University? Well, he had come to Brown on a student visa. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status in September of twenty seventeen, so that would mean that that was long after his student visa and his student career was over. This would have been fifteen years after the fact. Right, he was a grad student from two thousand to two thousand and one, so he was in the country for sixteen years after being a student, yet he was on a student visa. It's not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in two thousand and one and then getting the visa in twenty seventeen. So it's got a bit of a gap in the timeline. I'm sure we're going to find out more about that in the days and weeks to come. But he's got this, uh, you know, the missing years. Basically, his last known residence was in Miami, Florida. After officials revealed the suspect's identity, President Donald Trump suspended the program that he used or benefited from in order to get his permanent residency. I have it here. I thought I had it here. I printed it out. It's got to be someplace in my stack of stuff because it's like the Green Card lottery or something. Yeah, it's in here. I'll find during the break. Which is pretty amazing. I was unaware that this program exists. But the Green Card lottery program where they basically just pick your name like out of a hat, I mean it's well, it's like the computer randomly generates the winners and then you won the lottery. Congratulations, Now you have permanent residence status. But that was sixteen years after he took the leave of absence from Brown University. So how did they track this guy down? Would you believe. It was a Brown University student or former student who was homeless and living in the basement of the school building that was the break in the case. Police credited a person who had several encounters with Nevez Valente for providing a crucial tip that led authorities to him. December sixteenth, so this would have been three days ago. The tip Command Center received information from an anonymous source referencing a Reddit post. Okay, so somebody is on a subreddit for Providence, Rhode Island. I think they're calling this guy John. The then anonymous tipster. Stated. The reddit poster said they suspected the shooter was walking in the area. Investigators obtained a copy of the reddit post, and here is what the reddit post said quote, I'm being dead serious. The police need to look into a gray Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. That was the car he was driving. It was parked in front of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historical Society on the Cook Street side. I know because he used his keyfob to open the car. He approached it and then something prompted him to back away. When he backed away, he relocked the car. I found it odd. So when he circled the block, I approached the car, That's when I saw the Florida plates. He was parked in the section between the gate of the Rihs and the corner of Cook and George Streets. So that was the That was the Reddit post, and other users of Reddit then started urging John to tell the FBI, and John did. John said he had encountered him earlier hours earlier in the bathroom of the engineering building where the shooting occurred, and noticed he was wearing inappropriate clothing for the weather. Again, bumped into Neves Valente a couple blocks away and saw him suddenly turn away from a Nissan Sedan when he saw John. So that's from the affidavit that I just read to you from the Reddit post. So he was describing that. But that was the second time he had encountered this guy. The first time was in the bathroom in the building that John was squatting in. Okay, that didn't sound right, but you get the idea. He was right. Apparently he's homeless, and so he was living in the basement, which like that raises some more questions about Brown University's management, but we're gonna move on. The tip pointed investigators to a Nissan CenTra with Florida plates that enabled Providence police to tap into a network of more than seventy street cameras that are operated around the city by a surveillance company called flock Safety. Make sure I pronounced that one correctly. Really enunciate L you know, just for FCEC purposes Flock Safety. Those cameras track license plates and other vehicle details. After leaving Rhode Island, Providence officials say nevz Valente stuck a main license plate over his rental car's plate to help conceal his identity. Then they get the footage of Nevez Valente entering an apartment building near the MIT professor's building in the Boston suburb. About an hour later, he's seen entering Salem, New Hampshire at the storage facility, and that's where he is found dead because they got cameras at the storage facility as well. Brown officials say there are twelve hundred cameras on campus, but the attack happened in an older part of the engineering building that has few, if any cameras well, we know because they provided a map of their camera coverage area, like why would you do that? But also there's all dead zone around the engineering building, and there are rumors and theories out there that Brown University took down their cameras because of the ice raids. They were like, we don't want any of the protesters or obstructors, you know, or or we don't want to allow ice to get access to this stuff, so they blinded their cameras or they were blinding their cameras during the Tenttifada and the protests against Jews and all of that. Either way, they took the if that's true, which a reporter was grilling the Brown University president on the other day, just you know, did you take down the cameras? And either way, if either of those scenarios are true, it doesn't matter, because the point is still the same. 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I saw this from one of the most hilarious accounts on Twitter named Jarvis Jarvis Underscore Best is actually the Twitter handled Jarvis Underscore Best Jarvis Best, and he says, Uh, my entire life, I have dreamed of being a hobo redditor who travels from town to town solving mysteries. But this guy just falls into it. Yeah, and then somebody did some AI graphic about like the homeless detective or something living on the streets solving crimes. Now I will say this is from a g. Hamilton, also on Twitter. He says, pointing out that CBS News has well has turned a corner. It seems under the leadership of Barry Weiss. And I'm going to get to this as well. Barry Weiss from the Free Press, not a conservative. I'm not touting her as a conservative, but but she has a different approach to news gathering, and so they put her in charge of CBS News and the way they have like it seems like there has been a pretty significant and observable shift in the stories that they are. Focusing on, this being one of them. All Right, So after they found out that this guy, Nevez Valente was in the country on a student visa, and then sixteen years after he leaves Brown University, don't know what happens to him, don't know what he's doing. Sixteen years and then he wins the Green card lottery in twenty seventeen and he becomes a permanent resident. In response to this information, President Donald Trump suspended the Green card lottery program. So what is this? Well, interestingly enough, in February this year, Representative Mike Collins, Republican from Georgia, introduced the Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of twenty twenty five. And the idea here was to scrap this program altogether. So this is from Fox News at the time. Republican lawmakers are seeking to end a government program that undermines national security quote unquote by allowing a quote faceless computer code to randomly distribute visas to migrants through a lottery system, the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. They call it the DV program, But I don't see why you would call it the DV program unless you're because it's the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, So it would be the div P or the DIVOP as I would call it. But this is the Green card lottery. Republicans tried to end this thing. It did not pass. It's run by the State Department. It holds an annual lottery where up to fifty five thousand green cards are given out to immigrants, who are then granted permanent resident status through a randomized draw. This program was actually established in nineteen ninety. The program has been in political debate for years among lawmakers who have raised national security concerns over randomly choosing migrants to receive residency rather than going through a merit based selection process. Now, according to the government's website, they vet all of the people that get the lottery tickets here. But Congressman Collins said, quote, the Diversity Visa Program is a needless exercise in government virtue signaling. We've opened our country up to an almost endless system of chain migration while throwing a dart at the globe and letting faceless computer codes determine a path to citizenship for fifty thousand immigrants per year. To apply, the applicants have to come from countries that have historically low rates of immigration, like Portugal. Right they also have to complete at least a high school education. In twenty seventeen, several Republican lawmakers raised concern over the visa lottery after one of the winners, Sefulo Sapov, a terrorist who has granted residency through the program back in twenty ten, who then went on to kill eight people in New York by driving a truck into a crowd on Halloween. That was twenty seventeen. By the way, twenty seventeen, when the Republicans tried to dismantle this program, that's when Valente got his lottery ticket same year. Oh and there's another accused terrorist, Akayed Ulah, who was also granted a visa through the program. Ryan Walker, Heritage act and executive vice president at the time, said issuing visas based on arbitrary diversity quotas undermines national security, restricts opportunities for skilled talent, and fails to foster true diversity. Yeah, Like, the only criteria here is that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent. I guess, and you come from a country that historically doesn't have a high immigration rate into America. Like that's the criteria. Why what's the point of that? Diversity is our strength? I guess that's it. It's bizarre. Yeah, there's no reason to be handing out these lottery tickets. Doesn't make any sense, especially now that we've got several people that have won these tickets and then have gone on to commit acts of terrorism or violence. You know, you know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past, while trend sending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in nineteen ninety seven in Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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Now maybe facts get uncovered that reflect otherwise. But I don't know why Iran, you know. Would send an assassin after the target at MIT. Now, maybe they found a guy who had a previous beef with Brown University, and so he's like, well, you know, I'm going to go and assassinate this this nuclear scientist guy, this professor but you know what, I'm on my way from Miami up to Boston, I might as well, you know, make a detour through. Through Brown and you know, murder. Some innocent people, some students on the campus because you know, I don't like them, or don't like the campus. Or something like, I don't know to once again, in any kind. Of situation like this, In all these cases, I always urge people to keep in mind that you're approaching it from a rational, sane perspective, and so you're trying to figure out the why, right, And with most of these people that commit these types of acts, they are not sane and they are not rational. So our explanations that we can come up with never I should say never, but rarely line up with their delusions. It's very difficult, right, And when you hear like even times when they tell you like this is why I did it, Like, for example, my next door neighbor's dog was telling me to go murder people, right, Berkowitz like that, that's insane And how easy if that story were to emerge today, How easy would it be for everybody to say that couldn't possibly be true. Somebody must have hired this guy to do it. He's probably working for somebody, or there's some other reason for it or whatever. Nobody wants to accept that the person is insane and irrational carrying. Out these acts. So I don't know. I mean, there's an investigation going on. I saw a report that the Israelis are looking into the are looking into this to see if there are any connections, because they've got fantastic intel over in the Middle East, so we'll see. And then there's this story Bill Malugin from Fox News ICE confirms that a murder suspect arrested for shooting and killing a man in Reston, Virginia is a Salvadoran illegal alien who had just been released from the Fairfax County jail the day before, and he had an ICE detainer on him, and the ICE detainer was ignored. This was a policy decision made by the sheriff, Stacy Kincaid when she first won in or well, I shouldn't say when she first won, because I don't know when she was first elected, but she made this decision in twenty eighteen. Do you remember our own sheriff, Gary not my fault McFadden, as well as like three or four other sheriffs up in Durham and Bunkham and Wake. That was the same year they all won election promising the very same type of non cooperation with ICE. At the time, she issued the statement saying, after the date of termination the fair Fed which was May twenty third, twenty eighteen, the Fairfax County Sheriff saw will not honor any requests to detain individuals subject to an administrative detention request unless there is a corresponding, lawfully issued criminal detainer. Does that sound familiar. It should. That's the exact same thing that not my fault McFadden has been saying for the better part of eight years. Luckily, in North Carolina, unlike in Virginia, here, our legislature passed a series of laws that McFadden kept trying to dodge and skirt and find loopholes in, so then they would come and pass another law. They passed a series of law to force him to do what he should do as the top law enforcement officer of Mecklenburg County, which is to cooperate and honor these detainer requests. Virginia, no such luck, and now a guy is dead. They picked up this twenty three year old Marvin Morales Ortes, a citizen of l Salvador, was arrested following a man hunt after a man was found shot and killed inside of a home in rest in Virginia. Morales Ortes had been in Fairfax County jail while facing charges for brandishing a gun and assaulting and injuring somebody, but he was released when the case was dropped. Why was the case dropped, Well, the victim told police that they were out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings. So without the victim's necessary testimony, they could not move forward with the case. And so Ice says, hey, this guy's got a rap sheet. He's a criminal, illegal alien. Hold on to him. We'll come get him. And the Virginia Sheriff's Office said pound sand Ice, and they released him. If you get a criminal detainer, which doesn't exist. By the way, these criminal this immigration system. It's a civil proceeding. These were administrative warrants. This has never been an issue until Democrats chose to go down this path and try to be a little clever by half find the loopholes in the laws, or it got to be criminal, not civil, and all of this after his release, I say, I said that their detainer to transfer him to their custody was ignored. After his release. On Tuesday, Fairfax County Police said an emergency custody order was obtained for Morales Ortez due to mental health slash danger concerns. They looked for him to take him into custody, but they couldn't find him. He's accused of committing the murder. Just hours later, he's got a rap sheet showing he has been charged with at least seven crimes since twenty twenty. Again, these are choices. These are choices that Democrat leaders have made in various jurisdictions that they control, voters that put them there, chose to put them there, and until they choose to remove them, you will get more of this crap. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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