Person of Interest in Brown University Incident Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The individual believed to be the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. This suspect is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
âHe committed suicide tonight,â stated the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This development was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case continued unabated.
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 Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the suspect's death.
