Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Located Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect suspected of being the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday evening, per officials.
He was found at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named 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. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The intensive search 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 deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the broader investigation continued without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the shooting 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 international student in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
