Suspect in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday night, as stated by officials.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information from an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the deceased man 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 reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
