Suspect in Ivy League Campus Incident Located Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The man suspected of being the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday evening, according to officials.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. This suspect is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news follows a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed 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.
City leadership noted that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
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 served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the circumstances of the death.