Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Located Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, per officials.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement 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 this evening,” stated the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development follows a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous armed officers converging on the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting 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 international student in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the suspect's death.