Individual Accused in Brown University Shooting Located Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect linked to the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
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 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 disappointment, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
The young victims who lost their lives in the shooting 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 Uzbek national in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.