Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the recent fatal violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, as stated by officials.
He was found 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,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple armed officers entering the premises.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized 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.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.