Providence mayor asks FBI to give $50K reward to tipster whose Reddit post helped lead to suspected Brown University gunman

The mayor of Providence is asking FBI Director Kash Patel to give the $50,000 reward offered for information in the Brown ...

How surveillance tech and and the ‘Reddit Detective Agency’ helped hunt a killer

Surveillance technology helped track the suspect in the shootings at Brown University and the slaying of an MIT professor. But it was a Reddit user who 'blew this case right open' with an ...

How surveillance technology and the 'Reddit Detective Agency' helped search for a killer

More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath ...

How a Reddit tipster cracked the Brown University and MIT shooting cases

I’m being dead serious,” wrote the Reddit user. “The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a ...

How a Redditor named John helped Providence police track down the Brown University shooter

The man, a graduate of Brown University who told police he was homeless, “blew the case right open,” the Attorney General ...

Providence mayor: ‘Hero’ tipster that led officials to Brown shooting suspect should get full $50K

Brett Smiley, the Democratic mayor of Providence, R.I., is asking the FBI to issue a reward to the anonymous Reddit user ...

Providence mayor calls for Brown U. shooting tipster to get $50K reward: ‘A hero’

The FBI offered a reward of $50,000 for information that led to the identification and capture of the shooter.

'He blew this case wide open': Reddit user's tip led police to Brown shooter

A sharp-eyed Providence Reddit user noticed the masked suspect acting strangely the day of the shooting, so he confronted him ...