RI - Mass Shooting at Brown University - Providence 13 Dec 2025

[CaptRenault]

Kind of a summery of what everyone already pieced together. What he's been doing since he got back to the US in 2017 is the question I've not seen the answer to yet...

I agree that "...what he's been doing since he got back to the US in 2017.." is a question to which I would have expected to be answered by now. I would think that if he had had a job of some kind that someone who knew him from his job would have stepped forward by now to say something about his job.

How knows? Maybe he worked from home in some IT job that paid fairly well but didn't require him to interact with coworkers. Still it's mysterious that someone hasn't recognized his name and description and volunteered at least a few basic facts about what he was doing since 2017.

Though his parents have been described as being well off, he was estranged from them so they seem like an unlikely source of money. Is it true, as some reports indicate, that he owned an expensive condo and a couple, expensive luxury cars? Where do those details come from and where did the money come from?

Another article that I saw said that, when he was found dead, he had two credit cards in names other than his own in his possession. That could be an interesting detail, possibly indicating that he made money through some kind of illegal activity. However, he had no criminal record so maybe not.

I don't think we will ever truly understand what motivated him to commit these horrible murders. But learning what has happened in his life since 2017 would be helpful in understanding how he came to do what he did.

 

[Lebowski]

three theories on what he's been doing for money:

1) he had an ordinary employer, and LE has found them, but it just hasn't been made public
2) he was doing something where he could make money anonymously, like e-commerce or freelance software development
3) he had enough put away to live off the interest, because he was smart with his money in the 2000s and 2010s, and/or leeched off his parents

i agree, though, it is odd.

 

[Lebowski]

between the credit cards with names that weren't his, the flash drives, the NH storage unit he's had for 3 years, and the big fat question mark for what he's been doing the last 8 years, this case has the potential for more twists

 

[no nonsense]

three theories on what he's been doing for money:

1) he had an ordinary employer, and LE has found them, but it just hasn't been made public
2) he was doing something where he could make money anonymously, like e-commerce or freelance software development
3) he had enough put away to live off the interest, because he was smart with his money in the 2000s and 2010s, and/or leeched off his parents

i agree, though, it is odd.

Maybe he was a gambler/poker player? Physics folks are math whizzes and can calculate probabilities pretty efficiently.

 

[wibbleflea]

three theories on what he's been doing for money:

1) he had an ordinary employer, and LE has found them, but it just hasn't been made public
2) he was doing something where he could make money anonymously, like e-commerce or freelance software development
3) he had enough put away to live off the interest, because he was smart with his money in the 2000s and 2010s, and/or leeched off his parents

i agree, though, it is odd.

Don’t rule out crypto. Lots of money was made there, legally and illegally. Someone with coding skills and the ability to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses in code would have been able to siphon off decent sums with some degree of anonymity, though not as much as outsiders often think. Token scams and rug-pulls have been rampant for years. But even legitimate mining would have yielded decent sums, if the timing and conditions were right.

I wonder if the credit cards were in his parents’ names.

 

[knla]

Why didn't he put gloves on to load his gun?

 

[indicolite22]

Is it true, as some reports indicate, that he owned an expensive condo and a couple, expensive luxury cars? Where do those details come from and where did the money come from?

SBM. In Florida he lived in a rented property together with other renters.

 

[dontstayin]

Has there ever been any mention of a love interest or partner in his life? Could he have been scorned at Brown and been plotting his revenge ever since. Could be the reason for him leaving.
Was LN his live interest/factuation?

 

[getthefax]

between the credit cards with names that weren't his, the flash drives, the NH storage unit he's had for 3 years, and the big fat question mark for what he's been doing the last 8 years, this case has the potential for more twists

Add to that that early on, there were reports that Israel was looking into any potential connection to Iran. I don’t know what has become of that probe, but it was definitely being considered. Food for thought.