Person of Interest in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect suspected of being the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information 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 news briefing.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development follows a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student 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.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.