Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Located Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The man linked to the recent deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” announced the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The young victims 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 aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.