Suspect in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect linked to the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported 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.
“He committed suicide tonight,” 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a major law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The manhunt for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case continued without interruption.
The young victims 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 dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the circumstances of the death.