Individual Accused in Brown University Shooting Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The man linked to the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday evening, as stated by officials.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore 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 scheduled to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
