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The manhunt that consumed the Northeast has come to a grim close: authorities say the suspect in the Brown University shooting was found dead inside a New Hampshire storage facility and that an autopsy indicated a self-inflicted gunshot wound. That cold, clinical finding doesn’t bring back the students or the professor who were senselessly murdered, and it leaves a community and a country demanding answers.
Two Brown students were killed and nine others wounded during what should have been a quiet study session for finals, and two days later a respected MIT physicist was also gunned down in his home — a string of violence that reads like a nightmare. Families and classmates are left to mourn Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov while wondering how our institutions failed to stop this.
Investigators identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national and a former Brown student, who reportedly obtained U.S. permanent residency through the diversity visa lottery. The revelation has rightly reopened debate about immigration policy and vetting, and it prompted the administration to suspend the Diversity Immigrant Visa program pending review.
Law enforcement pieced together surveillance footage, witness tips, and travel records during a frantic multi-state search, and officials say the suspect was found with firearms at the scene where his body was discovered. The rapid spread of images and video helped break the case, but only after the worst of the violence had been inflicted.
Some on the left and in late-night punditry have reached for supernatural explanations, asking whether the shooter was possessed, as if evil were a mystical anomaly we can’t comprehend. Conservatives should reject magical thinking; real-world breakdowns in mental health care, family stability, and civic morality are the honest explanations we must confront rather than handing the narrative over to mysticism and excuses.
Reports show the attack unfolded in an older part of the engineering building that had few cameras and easier access, which should force every university to re-examine basic security and emergency preparedness. Campuses that spend millions promoting ideology but cut corners on surveillance, locked access, and practical safety are failing the students they claim to protect.
This tragedy also spotlights policy failures beyond campus gates: border security, visa programs, and the quality of vetting deserve sober, fact-based reform so that grieving families aren’t left asking whether more could have been done. Conservatives will keep saying what’s unpopular in the corridors of power — public safety must be the first priority, not virtue-signaling policy giveaways.
Hardworking Americans want justice, prevention, and a restoration of common-sense American values that prize life, responsibility, and community. We mourn the dead, demand answers, and insist that our leaders stop wringing their hands and start taking effective action to keep students and professors safe.
