Suspect in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Located Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The man believed to be the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
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 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 comes after a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous 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 released. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the shooting have been identified. 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 first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the suspect's death.
