Suspect in Ivy League Campus Shooting Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The man linked to the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, per officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple armed officers converging on the location.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
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 international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.