Individual Accused in Brown University Shooting Located Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The man suspected of being the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday evening, per officials.
He was found at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a significant law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.