Suspect in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the recent fatal violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, per officials.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
βHe committed suicide this evening,β said the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed 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.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting have been identified. 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 aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.