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Brown University mass shooting and MIT assassination may be connected, police confirm

The Brown University mass shooting which killed two students may be connected to the assassination of an MIT professor two days later, police have said.

An unidentified gunman opened fire on the Brown campus in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, and investigators failed to track the attacker down. 

Two days later, an unknown assailant fatally shot Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Nuno Loureiro inside his Boston home around 50 miles away. 

FBI agent Ted Docks said Tuesday ‘there seems to be no connection’ between the two shootings, but investigators told WPRI Thursday that there may be a link. 

The outlet did not give further information about the connection, but said it marks ‘a new break in the case’ which has baffled investigators for days. 

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, of Virginia, and Ella Cook, of Alabama, were fatally gunned down during the mass shooting at Brown on Saturday. 

They were in a study session held at the Ivy League’s School of Engineering Barus and Holley Building when a gunman burst in shortly after 4pm and opened fire. 

The gunman fired 40 rounds, killing the two students and wounding 12 more. 

FBI agents have released several photographs and videos of two ‘persons of interest’, but they are yet to name a suspect in the tragedy. 

A different ‘person of interest’ was detained at the Hampton Inn hotel in Coventry the day after the shooting, but they were later released without charge. 

Two days after the Brown shooting, at around 8.30pm Monday evening, married father-of-three Loureiro was shot dead in his home in Brookline, Boston. 

Loureiro’s neighbor and friend, Louise Cohen, said she discovered his body after hearing shots disturb the peace of their beautiful area on Gibbs Street. 

Cohen said she was lighting a menorah candle when she heard gunshots fired. She rushed to the hallway of their building and found Loureiro lying on his back. 

The professor’s heartbroken wife was also in the entry along with another neighbor, and they scrambled to dial 911. Loureiro was taken to hospital but died the next day.

Loureiro’s neighbors remembered him as a kind-hearted, ‘wonderful man’, while students flocked to the candle-lit vigil in his memory.

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Extrajudicial Killings From Barack Obama to Donald Trump

In May 2013, as President Barack Obama delivered a major foreign-policy speech in Washington, I managed to slip inside. As he was winding up, I stood and interrupted, condemning his use of lethal drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.

“How can you, a constitutional lawyer, authorize the extrajudicial killing of people – including a 16-year-old American boy in Yemen, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki – without charge, without trial, without even an explanation?”

As security dragged me out, Obama responded, “The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to.” Perhaps my questions touched a chord in his conscience, but the drone attacks did not stop.

Just before that incident, I had returned from Yemen, where a small delegation of us met with Abdulrahman’s grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki – a dignified man with a PhD from an American university, someone who genuinely believed in the values this country claims to represent. He looked at us, grief etched into his face, and asked, “How can a nation that speaks of law and justice kill an American child without apology, without even a justification?”

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Sick Leftist Podcast Host Jennifer Welch Claims Charlie Kirk ‘Justified’ His Own Assassination

Leftist podcast host Jennifer Welch has accused Charlie Kirk of “justifying” his own assassination through his pro-Second Amendment stance.

Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot during a September speaking event at a college campus in Utah.

Tyler Robinson, 22, a leftist with a transgender furry boyfriend, has been charged with the murder.

During a recent episode of her podcast I’ve Had It, featuring disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon, Welch played a clip from CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss interviewing Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk.

In the clip, Weiss asked Erika how she responds to those who “justified” her husband’s death.

Erika replied, “You’re sick. He’s a human being. You think he deserved that? Tell that to my three-year-old daughter.”

Welch, responding to the clip, insisted that Kirk himself provided the justification.

Referencing Kirk’s past comments on gun rights, she said, “The person that I heard that justified his death was him. He’s the one that said on tape that if school kids die, but it means he gets to have a Second Amendment, then that’s-, that’s what it’s gonna be. He’s the one that justified it.”

“And I believe at the time of shooting, he was talking about gun violence at the time,” Welch continued.

Welch was alluding to Kirk’s statements, where he argued that some “gun deaths every single year” are an unfortunate but necessary cost to preserve the Second Amendment and protect other God-given rights.

As noted by Mediaite, Kirk had also advocated for armed guards in schools, rhetorically asking, “If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don’t our children?”

Lemon wildly claimed he didn’t “know anyone who justified his death.”

His ridiculous claim ignores the reality of mass celebrations of Kirk’s murder. Celebratory comments were so widespread among leftists that dozens of teachers, professors, coaches, and others were fired for their remarks on social media.

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Erika Kirk slams CONSPIRACY theories about her late husband Charlie’s assassination

In an emotional and defiant interview on Fox News‘ “Outnumbered,” Erika Kirk, widow of slain Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk, lashed out at conspiracy theorists spreading unfounded claims about her husband’s assassination.

She called such rhetoric a “mind virus” and demanded an end to the harassment of her family and organization. The remarks come as prominent right-wing commentator Candace Owens and others have fueled speculation about Charlie’s death, questioning the official narrative and even suggesting TPUSA leadership may have been involved.

According to BrightU.AI‘s Enoch, Charlie’s assassination in September 2025 has been the subject of various conspiracy theories . Some conspiracy theorists argue that the incident was a staged event, orchestrated by Kirk himself or his organization, to gain sympathy, attention or funding.

The decentralized engine adds that other theories suggest the incident being a false flag operation, carried out by unknown parties to advance a political agenda. Some argue that the event was designed to stoke fear and division among conservatives, while others suggest it was an attempt to discredit or silence Kirk and his organization.

“Come after me, but leave my family alone”

Erika, who assumed leadership of TPUSA following her husband’s murder, did not hold back in her condemnation of those profiting from baseless theories.

“Come after me. Call me names. I don’t care. Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole. Whatever,” she said. “But when you go after my family, my TPUSA family, my ‘Charlie Kirk Show’ family – when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this? No.”

Her frustration was palpable as she described the toll these theories have taken on TPUSA staff, many of whom witnessed Kirk’s murder firsthand during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

“My poor team is exhausted, and every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do, relive that trauma all over again?” she asked. “They watched my husband get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day.”

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Kolomoisky In Court Describes Assassination Attempt Against Timur Mindich, ‘Zelenskiy’s Wallet’, In Israel

The Russian Telegram channel ‘Baza’ has reported an attempted assassination attempt against Timur Mindich, the Ukrainian/Israeli entertainment mogul who is close to Ukrainian President Zelenskiy. Mindich fled to Israel after being accused of laundering $100M of Ukrainian defense funds.

An assassination attempt was made on Timur Mindich in Israel, Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoisky* testified in court, reported Baza.

According to him, the incident occurred on November 28. During the attack, the perpetrators mistook the house and wounded the housekeeper. All the attackers were subsequently detained. Kolomoisky* added that he would provide details in the coming days.

Mindich is known as “Zelensky’s wallet.” Last month, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) conducted large-scale searches as part of an investigation into a corruption scheme in the Ukrainian energy sector orchestrated by Timur Mindich, co-owner of Kvartal 95. Some of the accused are wanted, while others have already been dismissed.

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The Silence Around Israel’s Role in the JFK Documents: What’s Being Protected?

For more than six decades, the official story of John F. Kennedy’s murder has been defined as much by what the government buried as by what it reluctantly disclosed. Yet among the thousands of newly declassified records, one thread stands out for the extraordinary lengths taken to obscure it: the quiet, complicated overlap between CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton’s secret Israeli channels and the agency’s surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald in the years before the assassination.

This is the part of the record that successive investigations tiptoed around, redacted into oblivion, or ignored altogether. Why? Why were references to Israel, its operatives, its cities, even its name, blacked out of Church Committee transcripts and presidential commission files for generations? Why did the government cloak the identities of Angleton’s Israeli contacts with such obsessive care that even today, many pages remain hollowed out by heavy black ink?

The newly opened files sharpen the puzzle. They reveal that Angleton, already notorious for his shadow-world methods, ran a covert Israeli liaison network parallel to official CIA chains of command, precisely at the time he controlled the sensitive 201 surveillance file on Lee Harvey Oswald. That file, kept under tight compartmentalisation, was fed in part by Reuben Efron, the Counterintelligence Staff officer assigned to monitor Oswald’s correspondence. Efron’s own background, his Zionist affiliations, his time in Israel, and his curious, unacknowledged presence at Marina Oswald’s Warren Commission questioning raise further questions about why this corner of the story remained sealed off for so long.

All of this unfolded in a charged political moment. Kennedy, increasingly wary of Israel’s nuclear ambitions at Dimona, was pressing for intrusive inspections and pushing back against a lobby whose influence he believed was growing too fast. And yet, inside his own intelligence services, the man overseeing the Oswald file was simultaneously conducting clandestine intelligence exchanges, assassination-related communications, and off-the-books operations with Israel, relationships he concealed from Congress and perhaps from parts of the CIA itself.

These details do not resolve the mystery of who killed JFK. However, they do illuminate a different mystery, one that speaks to institutional instinct, political pressure, and the fear of explosive geopolitical fallout: Why did the U.S. government decide that the American people should never be privy to this side of the story?

Why was the connection scrubbed so thoroughly that even the existence of redactions became a clue in itself?

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The Same Democrats Who Said NOTHING When Obama Drone-Bombed 16-yr-Old US Citizen Al-Awlaki Are Furious About Trump Bombing Dangerous Venezuelan Cartel Members in a Boat

Al-Qaeda leader and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen in September 2011 in a targeted strike.
Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico and attended college in Colorado.

Obama dropped a bomb on his head.

In May 2012 The New York Times revealed that Barack Obama was the official who actually made the final call on US drone strikes.

Seven months before the New York Times report, Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old American citizen from Denver, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in October 2011.

Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi was the son of terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi. He did not have a trial.  He was sixteen.

Barack Obama dropped a bomb on his head.

In January 2020, the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s International Airport. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Seven people were reportedly killed in the airstrike.

Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of dozens of US military men and women in Iraq.

Speaker Pelosi, Democrats and the fake news media were outraged over the death of the world’s number one terrorist.

The media and Democrats hammered President Trump all day.

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How Gabbard’s ‘hunters’ pounced on secret CIA warehouse for Kennedy files

The officials arrived at the secret CIA archival facility in the Washington area one morning in early April. Their mission: to seize still-classified CIA files on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

The team pulled up in their vehicles unannounced, catching the spy agency off-guard, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

They were acting on behalf of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who wanted to take documents out of the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency and start the process of declassifying them at the National Archives, the people said.

One of the people familiar with the matter said the CIA wasn’t aware that it was about to receive direction that day “from a higher government agency.” The person also described the moment as probably the most confrontational point in the still young relationship between Gabbard’s office and the CIA.

The official leading the search, a Defense Intelligence Agency official named Paul Allen McDonald II who was on temporary assignment to Gabbard’s office, declared that they were “on a mission” from Gabbard, two of the people said.

A Trump administration official who made a brief appearance that day after arriving in her minivan, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, was a CIA veteran herself and the daughter-in-law of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She did not have the necessary badge to access the warehouse but was waved in, the two people said. One said Fox Kennedy spent about an hour there, focusing on efforts to digitize the massive archive of papers.

The early April episode, which has not been previously reported, lasted until 2 a.m. the next morning when a massive trove of documents was eventually transferred to the National Archives, according to two of the people.

The case casts new light on the tension between two forces in Washington, the CIA and Gabbard’s ODNI, as Trump appointees sought to act on the president’s orders to swiftly release the full accounting of Kennedy’s murder in 1963, as well as the high-profile 1968 assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung said Trump had full confidence in both Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. “Efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work,” Cheung said.

A spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence said the ODNI “has worked in close coordination with the CIA since the beginning of the administration to carry out this historic release of files.”

Trump issued an executive order in January instructing Gabbard and the other intelligence agencies to declassify records related to the JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations.

Reuters could not independently determine if Gabbard directed this specific mission at the archives or the extent to which Trump may have been briefed ahead of time about individual missions related to the declassification effort.

The Director of National Intelligence serves as principal intelligence adviser to the president and has oversight over the 17 other agencies, including the CIA. The job typically includes managing interagency tensions.

In a joint statement, Gabbard’s ODNI and the CIA said the two agencies “have and will continue working hand-in-hand to release and declassify documents of public interest and execute President Trump’s mission of restoring trust in the intelligence community.”

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“Hate Speech Disguised as Activism”: Controversy Erupts Over Statements Against White Men

A new controversy has erupted in the United States after an activist, in an interview recorded in public, openly celebrated the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk and made a series of radical statements against white men, whom she described as “the greatest threat” to human well-being.

In the recording, which quickly went viral, the interviewee not only expressed joy over the death of a conservative leader but also justified her stance based on “personal experiences,” making it clear that she does not rely on data, studies, or concrete evidence. Her aggressive rhetoric has sparked outrage among Republican circles and analysts who consider this type of identity-based discourse extremely dangerous.

In her statements, the woman asserted that “white men are literally the greatest threat to humans being fed, housed, clothed, and having their basic needs met,” claiming that her judgment comes solely from what she “knows” rather than verifiable data. When asked to provide examples or statistics to support her claims, she replied: “I’m not a data analyst, I just know the experiences.”

The conversation grew even tenser when the activist directly held the reporter accountable—simply for being a white man—implying that he has supposed “privilege” just by being present conducting the interview. She tried to reinforce this argument by pointing to the presence of homeless individuals nearby, claiming that “none of them” looked like the reporter, although he immediately clarified that white people also experience homelessness.

When the reporter attempted to steer the discussion into a rational direction by asking, “What do you think we should do about white men?”, the interviewee evaded a concrete answer but made it clear that, in her view, the mere existence of white people in public positions constitutes a form of oppression.

The most serious point, however, was her initial statement: “F*** Charlie Kirk… I’m glad that guy is dead.” For Republican analysts and free speech advocates, this kind of rhetoric not only normalizes hate speech but also seeks to dehumanize a specific group of people based on race, justifying symbolic and social violence under the guise of “activism.”

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Kash Patel Talks In Depth About Attempted Trump Assassin And His Motives

FBI Director Kash Patel told investigative journalist Catherine Herridge that hatred for the U.S. government and the two-party system played a role in Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa.

Herridge asked Patel what motivated Crooks, 20, to try to kill Trump, then the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Patel’s answer appeared to depart from previous FBI statements when bureau officials said they were unable to find a motive or ideology behind the assassination attempt. The FBI director — appearing on Herridge’s show “Straight to the Point” by the Los Angeles Times Media Group — told her that Trump was “satisfied” with his agency’s investigation into that fateful day. Patel stopped short of saying the case was closed.

“He [Crooks], as has been publicized, had a basically hateful relationship with the United States government, talked disparagingly about both political parties, to include President Trump, and talked about the need to take matters into his own hands. And, unfortunately, that’s what he did,” Patel said when Herridge asked about Crooks’ motive.

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