Suspect in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The man suspected of being the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information from an official source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” stated the head 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 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 premises.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The young victims who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. 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 dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.