Suspect in Ivy League Campus Shooting Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, according to officials.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The intensive search 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 admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack 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 freshman 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.
