'Mass shooters tend to see themselves as victims — victims of injustice... They want to punish people who they hold responsible for their misery.'
"The suspect who allegedly killed two Brown University students and an MIT physicist in a multi-day shooting spree harbored a decades-old grudge over his own failed scientific career, investigators believe.
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was known in his youth in Portugal as a brilliant yet egotistical physicist who won national science competitions and dazzled with his intellect.
But after graduating from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal's top scientific university, friends said Valente struggled when he moved to the US in 2000 for a new challenge, and found his studies at Brown University underwhelming.
Those who knew Valente said he was an ego-maniac who believed the Ivy League college was beneath him, and dropped out after several months because he felt the classes were too easy.
Scott Watson, a physics professor at Syracuse University who befriended Valente at Brown, told the Boston Globe that he remembered the alleged killer as a complicated, unhappy student.
'He could be kind and gentle, though he often became frustrated — sometimes angry — about courses, professors, and living conditions,' Watson recalled.
Another former associate at Brown, Kamran Diba, a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, told the outlet Valente was a spiteful student, and said it was 'sad and upsetting the hate this person kept for so many years.' . . . More...
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