Individual Accused in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The man believed to be the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” stated the chief 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 development follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the attack 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 freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
