A longtime custodian at Brown University said he alerted a security guard after seeing a suspicious man walking around campus at least 10 times in the weeks leading up to the mass shooting on December 13.
Derek Lisi told the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/metro/brown-custodian-saw-shooting-suspect/">Boston Globe</a> on Sunday that 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, who killed two students and wounded nine others, was peering into classrooms and pacing the college&#8217;s hallways weeks before his attack. Lisi said Valente was walking around the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building at Brown, where on December 13, the gunman opened fire, killing 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov as they studied.
“He’d been casing that place for weeks,” Lisi said, adding, “I knew there was something off with him.&#8221;
Lisi said that he notified a staff member of a private firm he believed was working as a security guard about a suspicious person on two different occasions, adding that the staff member did not investigate. Brown uses Event Staffing Services, a private firm that provides security on campus. Event Staffing Services confirmed that one of its employees received a report of a suspicious person in December, but added that it is not responsible for investigating such reports, according to the Globe.
In the weeks before the shooting, the suspicious man was especially interested in room 166, according to Lisi. Room 166 is where the gunman shot multiple students days later.
“I thought it was someone trying to steal something,” Lisi said. “Every time he saw me, I think he thought I was security, because he would always walk away.&#8221;
Lisi said he recognized the suspicious man who had been walking around campus in the photos shared by police during the manhunt for the shooter. Providence, Rhode Island, police said that after the shooting, the custodian also told them that he had alerted campus security about a man who appeared to have been casing the campus.
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The Daily Wire reached out to Brown University for comment.
After hearing about the shooting at Brown, Lisi said he told a friend, &#8220;I hope it’s not the guy I’ve been seeing.&#8221; But after the police released the first images and videos of a person of interest, Lisi knew immediately.
“I knew it was him because I could tell by the walk,” he said. “He had a pretty distinctive walk.”
Lisi wasn&#8217;t alone in witnessing odd behavior from the shooter. A Brown faculty member told police that she saw a car matching the description of the suspect&#8217;s rental car slowly driving around campus just before the shooting. Another man, whom police identified as &#8220;John,&#8221; said that he saw the suspect acting suspiciously on campus in the days before the attack.
Valente, a Portuguese resident and former Brown student, was finally tracked down by police five days after the shooting, and was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage unit he owned in New Hampshire. Authorities believe that Valente was also responsible for the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was found shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on the morning of December 15.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered a pause on the United States green card diversity lottery immigrant visa program, which authorities say allowed the man who killed two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor to enter the country.
Police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-shooting-suspect-found-dead-by-suicide-in-new-hampshire-storage-facility?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Brown+Shooting+Suspect+Found+Dead+By+Suicide%2C+Identity+Released+By+Authorities">identified</a> the shooter as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University student who immigrated to the United States in 2017. Authorities found Valente dead in a New Hampshire storage unit on Thursday night, from what investigators believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://x.com/sec_noem/status/2001873077089767435?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">said</a> on X. “In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.”
Trump called on Congress to eliminate the visa lottery after that attack, but the effort failed.
“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem added. 
The “diversity visa” program allows up to 55,000 immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States into the country every year, according to the State Department. 
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Valente, a lawful permanent resident, attended Brown University as a physics student in 2001 and re-entered the United States 16 years later under the diversity visa program as a green card holder. Authorities believe he acted alone and have not revealed a motive. Investigators say Valente remained at large for six days after the Brown shootings, during which he allegedly entered an engineering building and opened fire, leaving two people dead and injuring nine more. While on the run, authorities believe he fatally shot MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home.
Police traced Valente to the New Hampshire storage facility after receiving a tip based on a Reddit post from someone who said they had seen the vehicle used by the gunman. “I’m being dead serious. The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental,” the post said, according to a police affidavit. 
That person later came forward to the police and provided a description of Valente. He said that he asked Valente why he was circling the block near the university, to which he replied, “I don’t know you from nobody,” and “Why are you harassing me?” 
Brown University officials and police have faced scrutiny over their handling of the investigation, including questions about why more surveillance footage was not available from the campus building where the shooting occurred.
“I know this has been hard on all of us over the past five days,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said at a Thursday night press conference. “Minutes have felt like hours, but the people of Providence have done what we’re best at – we’ve leaned on one another, come together and supported one another, and showed the nation what a tight-knit community looks like.”

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The suspect in the Brown University shooting who also allegedly killed an MIT professor two days later is found dead, the Trump administration rolls out new rules to defund hospitals that perform transgender procedures on minors, and a positive economic report shows cooling inflation.
It’s Friday, December 19, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251219-member-exclusive">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Brown And MIT Shooter Found Dead, Authorities Say</h2>
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On Thursday, police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-shooting-suspect-found-dead-by-suicide-in-new-hampshire-storage-facility">found</a> the body of the man who they said was responsible for the deaths of two students at Brown University and a professor at MIT. Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, died by suicide in a storage locker he had rented in New Hampshire. His last known address was in Miami, Florida, but he originally came from Portugal. Authorities said he attended Brown in the early 2000s as a PhD student, but he never completed the program. New Hampshire authorities said Neves Valente also attended the same academic program in Portugal as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was found dead in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, earlier this week. According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Neves Valente “entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card.” Noem said Thursday night she had <a href="https://x.com/sec_noem/status/2001873077089767435">paused</a> the DV1 program at President Donald Trump’s direction.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Cuts Funds To Hospitals Performing Trans Treatments</h2>
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The Trump administration has moved to cut off federal funding for hospitals performing transgender procedures and surgeries on minors, a fulfillment of a major Trump campaign promise. A number of new rules are being applied to cut off federal funding to any facility that performs trans procedures on children, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical operations. The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) will bar hospitals from performing any of these procedures on children under 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. New rules will also block funding of Medicaid’s Children’s Health Insurance Program for trans procedures on anyone under 19. That program, known as CHIP, covers millions of kids nationwide.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Inflation Cools</h2>
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November’s Consumer Price Index report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-report-surprises-economists-as-key-metric-drops-to-lowest-level-since-2021">shows</a> that inflation cooled last month, defying expert predictions and providing political relief for President Trump. The report was especially important, as it was the first since September. The October report was lost to the federal shutdown. Economists had originally predicted a month-over-month rise of 3.1%, but inflation actually came in at 2.7%. That is down from a peak 9% in 2022 under President Joe Biden. Looking at core inflation, which strips out prices on volatile goods such as food and gas, the numbers appear even better. In November, CPI was 2.6%, the lowest since March 2021. The Trump administration took a victory lap on Thursday, and investors were also thrilled by the news, as the DOW, NASDAQ, and S&amp;P 500 all climbed significantly.

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The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a New Hampshire storage facility, according to Fox News.
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Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, whose last known address was in Miami.
Valente is a legal permanent resident who attended Brown as a physics student in 2001. He re-entered the country in 2017 as a green card holder. Authorities believe he acted alone.
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Authorities confirmed that Valente killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in his home, less than 50 miles from Brown University. Valente previously attended the same university program as Loureiro in 1995, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Law enforcement traced the suspect to a rental car location in Boston, and then to a storage facility in New Hampshire, where he was found deceased via a self-inflicted gunshot wound, along with the satchel seen on video footage and two firearms.
This marks the end of a 6-day-long manhunt that spanned three states and involved local, federal, and state law enforcement.
“I know this has been hard on all of us over the past five days,” Providence Mayor Smiley said at a Thursday night press conference. “Minutes have felt like hours, but the people of Providence have done what we’re best at – we’ve leaned on one another, come together and supported one another, and showed the nation what a tight knit community looks like.”
“Tonight our Providence neighbors can breathe a little easier,” Smiley said.
The Rhode Island press conference has yet to mention the shooting of an MIT professor. A separate news conference is planned in Boston around 10:30 p.m. EST.

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Law enforcement is swarming a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, after locating an abandoned car linked to the Brown University shooting suspect.
Authorities believe the identified license plate matches the vehicle used in the Monday killing of an MIT professor in his home, less than 50 miles from Brown University, according to CNN.
Officers equipped with night vision and long rifles have surrounded the facility, and Fox News National Correspondent Brooke Taylor <a href="https://x.com/Brooketaylortv/status/2001816919813296600?s=20">reports</a> that local and federal law enforcement are preparing to enter the building after reviewing surveillance footage.
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Police were visible outside a building in Salem, New Hampshire. The activity was believed to be related to the Brown University shooting. Sources told NBC 10 earlier that the person of interest had been identified.<a href="https://t.co/rPZVMYxuU8">https://t.co/rPZVMYxuU8</a> <a href="https://t.co/miv8QBm5dF">pic.twitter.com/miv8QBm5dF</a>
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Sources told Fox News that video surveillance shows the suspect entering the facility, but it is currently unclear if he ever left. Police have obtained a warrant to search the facility, per the New York Times.
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The Salem Police Department issued an alert to residents regarding the police activity at the storage facility, stating they are assisting several federal agencies with “an active and ongoing investigation.”
“At this time, there is no information indicating an imminent risk to the public or residents of Salem,” police said. “However, we encourage everyone to remain vigilant and exercise heightened caution.”
Police are urging residents to report anyone who appears “out of place, unfamiliar to the area or behaving in a manner that seems unusual or suspicious.”
The news conference on the Brown University shooting investigation, scheduled initially at 4 p.m. EST Thursday, has been delayed.
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Shooting At Brown University In Providence Leaves Multiple People Dead And Injured

Police Surround New Hampshire Storage Facility Linked To Suspected Brown University Shooter

Police have identified a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University, according to multiple outlets.
Law enforcement is now searching for the identified person of interest, with Boston 25 <a href="https://x.com/Bward3/status/2001786193424650550?s=20">reporting</a> that the manhunt is now centered on Salem, New Hampshire. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/brown-university-mass-shooting-manhunt-gunman-12-18-2025">reports</a> that police now have an arrest warrant for the individual, whom authorities have not publicly named.
Law enforcement believes the identified car is the same make and model of the vehicle used in the Monday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-investigating-potential-connection-between-brown-university-mit-shootings?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Police+Investigating+Potential+Connection+Between+Brown+University%2C+MIT+Shootings">killing</a> of an MIT professor in his home, less than 50 miles from Brown University.
Boston 25 <a href="https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-reports-active-shooter/">spotted</a> FBI agents and members of state police surrounding an unspecified location in Salem shortly before 7:00 p.m. Local reporter Ted Daniel <a href="https://x.com/TedDanielnews/status/2001802115321336073?s=20">reports</a> that officers in the area are equipped with long guns and night vision.
On Saturday, an unidentified gunman killed two Brown University students — Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov — and injured nine others after opening fire inside Brown’s Barus &amp; Holley engineering building.
48 hours later, an assailant shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro multiple times inside his Brookline, Massachusetts, home.
Authorities have yet to identify suspects in either case publicly, and initially stated in a Tuesday press briefing that there “seems to be no connection” between the two shootings.
Surveillance footage from Brown University captured the alleged shooting suspect — wearing a dark jacket, mask, and hat — walking around campus for hours before the attack around 4 p.m. Saturday. Multiple law enforcement agencies have expanded their search for video evidence, releasing a new map that widens the area of interest around the university.
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ENHANCED VIDEO: We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident.
Please share widely and contact the official tip line if you have… <a href="https://t.co/mewBSflOiO">pic.twitter.com/mewBSflOiO</a>
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A second person of interest was identified on Wednesday, depicted wearing a blue jacket and green hood, carrying a white satchel in the area of the shooting.
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The search for the person of interest comes after law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-recover-dna-evidence-from-brown-university-shooting-scene?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Police+Recover+DNA+Evidence+From+Brown+University+Shooting+Scene">recovered</a> physical evidence — including live ammunition and DNA — from the scene of the mass shooting.
The news conference on the Brown University shooting investigation, scheduled initially at 4 p.m. EST Thursday, has been delayed, a spokesman for the Providence mayor <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brown-university-shooting-suspect-12-18-25?post-id=cmjbvx0ot00003b6qsaezw3sb">told</a> CNN.

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Police are investigating a potential connection between the Saturday shooting at Brown University and the Monday killing of an MIT professor in his home, based on information that has emerged in the last 24 hours.
Multiple people familiar with the investigation told <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/18/us-news/investigators-probing-ties-between-brown-university-and-mit-professor-shootings-days-into-separate-manhunts/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_social_post_id=626977137&amp;utm_social_handle_id=17469289&amp;utm_source=twitter">several</a> <a href="https://www.wpri.com/target-12/police-probe-potential-ties-between-brown-university-attack-and-mit-professor-slaying/">outlets</a> that federal, state, and local authorities are now examining evidence that the two crimes, which took place less than 50 miles apart, may be linked, marking a significant shift in both stalled investigations.
The violence began Saturday afternoon when an unidentified gunman killed two Brown University students — Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov — and injured nine others after opening fire inside Brown’s Barus &amp; Holley engineering building.
48 hours later, an assailant shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro multiple times inside his Brookline, Massachusetts, home.
Authorities have yet to identify suspects in either case, and initially stated in a Tuesday press briefing that there “seems to be no connection” between the two shootings.
Providence police and the FBI have steadily released images and video depicting two persons of interest walking the streets around Brown University before and after the shooting, asking the public for any information to identify them.
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ENHANCED VIDEO: We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident.
Please share widely and contact the official tip line if you have… <a href="https://t.co/mewBSflOiO">pic.twitter.com/mewBSflOiO</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2001035754898653196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Surveillance footage from Brown University captured the alleged shooting suspect — wearing a dark jacket, mask, and hat — walking around campus for hours before the attack around 4 p.m. Saturday. Multiple law enforcement agencies have expanded their search for video evidence, releasing a new map that widens the area of interest around the university.
A second person of interest was identified on Wednesday, depicted wearing a blue jacket and green hood, carrying a white satchel in the area of the shooting.
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ENHANCED PHOTO: Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in this photo who was in proximity of the person of interest.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121. <a href="https://t.co/D1reRPCdZV">pic.twitter.com/D1reRPCdZV</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2001390136857178172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Authorities urge anyone with information about either incident to contact law enforcement immediately at 401-272-3121.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: The FBI and <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProvidenceRIPD</a> are releasing new images of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on 12/13/25. The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FBI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FBI</a> is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual.… <a href="https://t.co/OhpnsN9fds">pic.twitter.com/OhpnsN9fds</a>
— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIBoston/status/2000690371072794682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hollywood reels after the gruesome deaths of iconic director Rob Reiner and his wife, and the arrest of their son. The FBI says it foiled a major left-wing terrorist plot in Southern California, and the manhunt continues for the Brown University shooter.
It’s Tuesday, December 16, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251216-member-exclusive">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Reiner Murders</h2>
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Hollywood icon Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele, 70, were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-director-rob-reiner-and-wife-found-dead-in-apparent-homicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, and authorities determined that they were &#8220;victims of homicide.&#8221; Emergency responders were called to the home around 3:30 p.m. for a medical aid request. When firefighters arrived, they discovered the couple&#8217;s bodies. It’s been widely reported that their throats were cut. The Los Angeles County Coroner&#8217;s Office hasn’t officially released its causes of death yet, but the LAPD has classified them as homicides. The Reiners’ son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rob-reiners-son-charged-in-brutal-slayings-bail-set-at-4-million">taken</a> into custody later that night and &#8220;booked for murder,&#8221; according to police. He has reportedly struggled with substance abuse that create conflicts in the household. The Los Angeles Times reports that Rob and Nick got into an argument on Saturday at a party at Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s home.
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Police said homicide detectives will present their case to the L.A. County District Attorney&#8217;s Office on Tuesday, when officials will determine which charges to file.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Leftwing Terror Plot Thwarted</h2>
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On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-pro-palestinian-groups-new-years-eve-bombing-plot-foiled-by-feds">announced</a> that after a thorough investigation, the Department of Justice thwarted a “massive and horrific” left-wing terror plot to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-leftist-group-accused-of-plotting-new-years-eve-bombings-also-had-plans-to-attack-ice?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Radical+Leftist+Group+Accused+Of+Plotting+New+Year%E2%80%99s+Eve+Bombings+Also+Had+Plans+To+Attack+ICE">bomb</a> a number of locations across Southern California on New Year’s Eve. The plan was allegedly being organized by a faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a leftist group that holds anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, and anti-American views. Bondi simply said this had been a long investigation, but it appears the turning point came when the FBI obtained clear plans for a terror attack. According to a DOJ affidavit obtained by Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan, one of the group’s leaders, Audrey Carroll, 30, of Los Angeles, unknowingly provided an 8-page outline of the plot to a law enforcement source. That document, dubbed Operation Midnight Sun, outlined plans to drop backpacks containing IEDs at five separate locations across Los Angeles and Orange counties on New Year&#8217;s Eve. Carroll, along with three other individuals also living in the L.A. area, was charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device. The FBI said the targets chosen included large American corporations–they didn’t give any names but said they were “similar to Amazon.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Hunt For The Brown University Gunman Continues</h2>
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Law enforcement continues to investigate a shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others. The Providence, Rhode Island, community has been deeply unsettled since officials released a person of interest late Sunday night after concluding the man they had detained was not the gunman. Authorities have continued a frenzied manhunt for the suspect, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authorities-release-new-footage-offer-50000-bounty-for-brown-shooting-suspect">releasing</a> additional images and video of a person of interest on Monday. The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual

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Authorities have released new images and video of a person of interest related to a mass shooting at Brown University while the FBI has offered a $50,000 bounty.
Law enforcement have been attempting to track down a gunman who killed two students and injured nine others on Saturday. Authorities had detained a “person of interest” early on Sunday, but released him after concluding he did not commit the shooting.
The new video and reward offer come as law enforcement have continued a frenzied search to find the shooter. Local officials on Sunday asked residents in Providence, Rhode Island, for additional information, tips, videos, and images of the person of interest after he was caught on CCTV footage in the area of the university.
“The FBI and [the Providence Police Department] are releasing new images of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on 12/13/25. The [FBI] is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual,” the bureau’s Boston office said in a post on X.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: The FBI and <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProvidenceRIPD</a> are releasing new images of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on 12/13/25. The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FBI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FBI</a> is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual.… <a href="https://t.co/OhpnsN9fds">pic.twitter.com/OhpnsN9fds</a>
— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIBoston/status/2000690371072794682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Providence Police Department released additional videos of what appears to be the person of interest dressed in black clothing with a mask on.
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🚨2/4 We are requesting the public&#8217;s assistance in identifying a person of interest in Saturday&#8217;s incident at Brown University. Please share these video clips and direct all tips to 401-272-3121 or <a href="https://t.co/8a1yEMYJya">https://t.co/8a1yEMYJya</a> <a href="https://t.co/5hLiqRDtC4">pic.twitter.com/5hLiqRDtC4</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2000701552663654740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley attempted to reassure the public on Monday that there is no active threat despite the shooter still being at large.
“Ever since 4:05 on Saturday, which is when the call came in for [the Brown University shooting] there has been no new credible specific threat anywhere in the Providence community,” Smiley <a href="https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/2000696187725467805">said</a> at a press conference on Monday.
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Unconvinced reporters pushed Smiley on his basis for claiming that the community remains safe. Officials have increased police presence throughout Providence and at Brown University while the hunt for the shooter continues.
A gunman on Saturday stormed into a classroom in Brown’s engineering department and killed two students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov. Cook was from Alabama and served as vice president of the university’s Republican Club. Umurzokov was an Uzbek national in his first year at the school.

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Terrorists kill American soldiers in Syria and more than a dozen people at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia, a person of interest related to a deadly shooting at Brown University has been released, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from ICE custody.
It’s Monday, December 15, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251215">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Terror Attacks Abroad: Australia And Syria</h2>
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Fifteen people are dead and many more injured after a terror attack in Australia targeting a Hanukkah celebration. On Sunday, hundreds of people, mostly Jews, had gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney. That’s when two men, reportedly motivated by Islamic extremism, opened fire with rifles, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-attack-on-australian-hanukkah-celebration-leaves-11-dead-dozens-wounded">killing</a> at least fifteen, and wounding more than two dozen more in the largest attack on Jews since October 7, 2023. Witnesses said it was clear the men were not shooting at everyone, but specifically targeting beachgoers who appeared to be Jewish. As the gunmen poured shot after shot into the crowd, a heroic bystander took matters into his own hands. Stunning video from the scene <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-civilian-ambushes-terrorist-at-bondi-beach-wrestles-rifle-away">shows</a> an unarmed man creeping towards a gunman from behind a row of cars–he gets within a few feet and then leaps on the terrorist, wrestling the rifle away from him.
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On Saturday, a lone gunman ambushed a group of American service members engaged in counterterrorism operations in Syria. The gunman, whom the White House says was a member of ISIS, killed two American service members and their American translator, and wounded five others, including three more Americans. According to numerous reports, the gunman, who was killed at the scene, was a “ISIS infiltrator” who was working as part of a government security detail. President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-to-retaliate-after-u-s-troops-killed-by-isis-in-syria">vowed</a> in a Truth Social post that “there will be very serious retaliation.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Two Dead After Mass Shooting At Brown University</h2>
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Two Brown University students are dead after a gunman opened fire inside a classroom on Saturday. The shooting took place at around 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday. The university went into lockdown until early the next morning. From the time of the shooting, police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbis-patel-promises-all-out-24-7-campaign-to-deliver-justice-after-brown-university-shooting">searched</a> for about 12 hours before detaining a 24-year-old man who officials identified as a “person of interest,&#8221; but he was released from custody. Investigators <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/us-news/person-of-interest-in-brown-university-shooting-released/">said</a> they had the wrong person. In addition to the two students who were killed, nine others were wounded in the shooting. Officials have said the survivors are in stable condition.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Back On The Streets</h2>
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Alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from ICE custody on Friday – and he’s now vowing to “fight” the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-orders-kilmar-abrego-garcia-freed-from-ice-custody">ordered</a> that Abrego Garcia be freed. This time, the judge ordered that he cannot be re-detained by ICE until the court conducts a hearing on the motion for the temporary restraining order.

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A person of interest detained over the shooting at Brown University that left two dead and nine injured has been released as law enforcement continues to hunt for the gunman, officials said late Sunday. 
That announcement came one day after a gunman wearing all black stormed an engineering building and opened fire on a group of students studying for finals. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that evidence pointed law enforcement in a different direction. 
“There was some degree of evidence that pointed to this individual, but that evidence needed to be corroborated and confirmed,” he said at a press conference on Sunday. “That evidence now points in a different direction. So what that means is that this person of interest needs to be, and should be released.”
Neronha added that it was unfortunate that specific information about the person of interest had been leaked to the media. 
“I think what is really unfortunate [is] that this person&#8217;s name was leaked to the public. It&#8217;s hard to put that back in the bottle, OK? So we&#8217;re going to proceed very carefully here,” he said. “ There is too much at stake for the victims of this horrific crime and their families to take chances with respect to this investigation.”
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When the person of interest was initially detained by law enforcement, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said that authorities were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack. Perez said Sunday that the person of interest was not the individual captured on video that was released by the police department. Law enforcement is still looking for the person shown in the video.
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Video of person of interest in Brown shooting: <a href="https://t.co/fjufQ3MTdC">pic.twitter.com/fjufQ3MTdC</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2000054325825961988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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At the same press conference, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said the investigation was ongoing but that they did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community.  
“We know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community, and we want to reiterate what we said earlier, which remains true, which is ever since the initial call, now a day and a half ago, we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community,” he said. 
Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee said he spoke with FBI Director Kash Patel before the press conference to inform him that the person of interest would be released. He said Patel told him federal resources would continue to be provided while the search was ongoing.

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