Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect suspected of being the recent fatal violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered 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.
“He committed suicide tonight,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the attack have been identified. 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 international student in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.