Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The man suspected of being the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday evening, per officials.
He was found at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. This suspect is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
âHe ended his own life this evening,â said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed 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 noted 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 second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.