Suspect in Brown University Shooting Located Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect suspected of being the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” stated the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials noted that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation continued without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the shooting have been named by family. 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.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to provide further details on the circumstances of the death.
