Suspect in Ivy League Campus Incident Located Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday evening, per officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing numerous armed officers entering the premises.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused 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 active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.
