Brown Shooter’s Friend Offers Possible Explanation for Massacre

Claudio Neves Valente’s self-described “only friend” at Brown University said he thinks he knows the shooter’s possible motive. “I’m speculating now, but I mean, I think he went to shoot up the building because it ruined his life because they didn’t provide what he thought he deserved,” Scott Watson, who is now a physics professor at Syracuse University, told Fox News. Watson and Valente, 48, were former classmates at Brown University, where the shooter attended as a PhD student from fall 2000 until taking a leave of absence in April 2001 and formally withdrawing in July 2003.

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