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Brown University gunman drove 17 HOURS to Rhode Island with laser-reinforced firearm before wreaking chaos
UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/14/2025 | LAURA PARNABY, EMMA RICHTER, and CLAUDIA AORAHA,

Posted on 12/14/2025 12:15:25 PM PST by DFG

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting at Brown University drove from Wisconsin to Rhode Island with a laser-equipped firearm, according to law enforcement.

Aged in his 20s, the unidentified gunman killed two Ivy League students and injured several more before FBI agents snared him at the Hampton Inn hotel in Coventry.

Sources told CNN he drove from Wisconsin to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island - a journey which would have taken around 17 hours.

The person of interest also had two guns in his possession at the hotel and one of them had laser sight, sources told the outlet.

The laser pointer is commonly used to show where a bullet will land once it is discharged from a firearm.

Police have yet to name the suspected shooter and his motive is unclear.

Detained man is from Wisconsin The man in his 20s detained by police is from Wisconsin, an anonymous law enforcement official told CNN.

He is believed to have driven from the Midwestern state to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island - a journey which would have taken around 17 hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Rhode Island; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; brown; bsreinforcedarticle; dailyfaildotcrap; education; rhodeisland; wisconsin
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1 posted on 12/14/2025 12:15:25 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

laser-reinforced firearm

Sounds like a video-game buff.


2 posted on 12/14/2025 12:17:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Still no name. No citizenship information. What the effin hell!

3 posted on 12/14/2025 12:19:01 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: BenLurkin

Leftard/Antifa type for sure.


4 posted on 12/14/2025 12:19:15 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: BenLurkin

“laser-reinforced firearm”

Sounds like yet another journalism degree writing a regarded story.


5 posted on 12/14/2025 12:19:32 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: DFG

https://www.cnn.com/

16 dead - Bondi Beach


6 posted on 12/14/2025 12:19:59 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DFG

Gosh. He violated all kinds of laws to carry this out. Perhaps we need to pass more laws about gun control? Maybe that would have stopped him?


7 posted on 12/14/2025 12:20:09 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: DFG

“...his motive is unclear.”

I posit that is a lie. Given the state of connected tech today, the authorities know exactly why he did it, when he started planning it and more.


8 posted on 12/14/2025 12:21:31 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: DFG

“laser-reinforced firearm”

It’s like rebar only with light.


9 posted on 12/14/2025 12:21:58 PM PST by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: CodeToad

“. . . commonly used to show where a bullet will land.”


10 posted on 12/14/2025 12:23:24 PM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: BenLurkin

Laser-reenforced. I’ve got to get a hold of Santa and change my list. I didn’t know about laser reenforced.


11 posted on 12/14/2025 12:23:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Still no name. No citizenship information. What the effin hell!


It’s almost as if they’re hiding something relevant from us. But that’s just crazy talk.


12 posted on 12/14/2025 12:24:08 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: BenLurkin

I know, right?


13 posted on 12/14/2025 12:24:26 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They are scrubbing bubbles on social media.


Still no name. No citizenship information. What the effin hell!


14 posted on 12/14/2025 12:24:48 PM PST by Dacula (Jesus is the only true savior. I reject satan and his pedophile prophet.)
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To: DFG; All

“still not identified”

The REgime needs time to purge his social media, so they can say “unknown motive”, “not terrorism”, “he acted alone”...


15 posted on 12/14/2025 12:24:50 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: DFG

Sounds like car travel is safe for perps.

The November Afghan illegal suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, drove across the country from his home in Bellingham, Washington to DC to kill one National Guard woman and critically wound another.

When Lee Harvey Oswald was asked what was in the long wrapped package he carried he said “Curtain rods” for his Oak Cliff apartment.

When Ohio deputies made a traffic stop of Jeffrey Dahmer they asked what was in the black plastic trash bag on the back seat. He said he was helping his ailing mother to clear out lawn waste.
They gave him a cheery sendoff and he was on his way.
The bag contained the severed pieces of his first murder victim.


16 posted on 12/14/2025 12:24:59 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your wa lls. )
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To: DFG

I think he drove all that way just to protest Rhode Island’s new “laser-reinforced firearm” laws.


17 posted on 12/14/2025 12:25:01 PM PST by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: DFG

“The laser pointer is commonly used to show where a bullet will land once it is discharged from a firearm.“
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Who writes this crap?


18 posted on 12/14/2025 12:25:03 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: DFG

Laser reinforced? So after the “bang” is goes “pew pew” too?


19 posted on 12/14/2025 12:25:35 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Still no name. No citizenship information. What the effin hell!

It means the killer is NOT a traditional white middle class, middle aged white MAGA man...

If he had been that news would have broken about 5 minutes after he had been arrested. Or before ....

20 posted on 12/14/2025 12:26:06 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats stand with criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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