Individual Accused in Brown University Shooting Located Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the recent deadly violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.
