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by sometimez 181 days ago
"...the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building..." Where did you read this?
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https://kfanplus.iheart.com/content/2025-12-19-homeless-man-...

It was posted on a Fox News affiliate. He won't get the reward, because he called 911 rather than the tipline.

FWIW, The New York Post video on this said he will get the reward.
That doesn't surprise me at all.

Makes me furious, but it doesn't surprise me.

I assume he will also no longer be able to live in the engineering hall basement. Beyond personal moral satisfaction, coming forward only means sacrifice.

But a number of people have lost their lives, which keeps the scale of the tipster's personal losses in perspective. A terrible event all around.

> number of people have lost their lives, which keeps the scale of the tipster's personal losses in perspective

I disagree. The shooter’s victims fell to a random act of violence. (As in the victims were randomly selected. The shooter didn’t randomly occur.)

It is tragic. But it was a crime committed by one man, now dead, who targeted the innocent.

The tipster is more than innocent. He is a hero. His eviction is not a random act of cruelty, but a result of his heroism. And his assailants aren’t a monster, whom we don’t expect to strive for goodness, but us.

> And his assailants aren’t a monster, whom we don’t expect to strive for goodness, but us.

I expect monstrous actions from all humankind, though. What sets “us” apart from deviants is the deftness of our self-justification.

To be clear, there’s no actual evidence that he’s being evicted. Talking about “his eviction” is pretty premature. It also seems like he will receive the reward.
Last sentence went a little insane.
> Last sentence went a little insane

I'm drawing a moral analogy to mass murder, so the whole thing is going to tend towards the unhinged. But I'll stand by it. There is something sad in ordinary people bending to banal evil. Monsters being monsters is just horrific.

https://news.sky.com/story/how-a-reddit-post-blew-brown-univ...

> How a Reddit post blew Brown University shooting investigation wide open

> Frustration had mounted that the murderer had managed to get away and that a clear image of his face hadn't emerged - until a Reddit post finally put police on his trail.

That says he's a reddit poster, not a Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building.
A lot of reddit posters live in basements, a subset of which are in the engineering building.
Most Reddit posters are children. What of it? How does "he was a Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building" follow?
Those two descriptions are not mutually contradictory.
What I heard is he called the police tip line and left a message but didn't hear back for two days. After two days he left this tip and then was made a person of interest. This is just what I heard, not sure if there's more to this story.
And...?? How does "he was a Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building" follow? Wtf?
Im a bit worried for the homeless guy, he helped solve the case but he likely blew up his cover and will have to find a new shelter.