Suspect in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The individual suspected of being the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, as stated by officials.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information from an official source. This suspect is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described 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 person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore 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.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.