Person of Interest in Ivy League Campus Shooting Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect linked to the recent fatal violence at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. This suspect is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the deceased man 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 described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the location.
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 turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials noted that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student 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 press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
