Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Located Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The man believed to be the recent deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” stated the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the attack 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 international student in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the suspect's death.
