Person of Interest in Brown University Incident Located Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. The same individual 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,” stated 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 comes after a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the release was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The two students who were killed 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 dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
