BREAKING: As many suspected, the shooter behind the MIT and Brown University shootings was the same man. As Secret Sun readers suspected, he was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire.
The story goes that the shooter is one Claudi Nevis Valenti, a Portuguese national who apparently knew the victim. He was traced to an Extra Space storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where he was reportedly found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
We've talked quite a bit about New Hampshire lately, especially this particular area where Mystery Hill AKA America's Stonehenge sits, just to give that extra bit of Lovecraftian frisson.
I'll be following developments. Meanwhile, here's what I'd written earlier.
I'll be following developments. Meanwhile, here's what I'd written earlier.
A lot of folks have been asking me about the MIT horror show, so here's a quick breakdown.
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts Monday night, the school confirmed. Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal, was 47 years old.
A Brookline police spokesperson said officers responded to a call for gunshots at an apartment on Gibbs Street at about 8:30 p.m.
"A victim was located who had been shot multiple times," Brookline police deputy superintendent Paul Campbell told WBZ-TV.
Why is this story important, not to mention especially troubling, past the obvious crime itself?
Because the vic was a top scientist, and an obvious target if things were in fact heating up on the New Cold War front:
Last May, Loureiro was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center. An article on the school's website described it as "one of MIT's largest labs" with more than 250 full-time researchers, students and staff working across seven buildings.May 1st, to be exact - Beltane.
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The surname Loureiro originates from Portugal and Galicia, Spain, derived from the Portuguese and Galician word for "laurel tree."So there are the requisite Garlands.
Portugal is especially interesting in the context of the Synchro Superstorm:
One of the suggested places for Atlantis is around the Azores Islands, a group of islands belonging to Portugal located about 900 miles west of the Portuguese coast. Some people believe the islands could be the mountain tops of Atlantis.Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American congressman, was perhaps the first one to talk about this possible location in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882). Ignatius L. Donnelly also makes a connection to the mythical Aztlán.
