Suspect in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect linked to the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information 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 ended his own life this evening,” said 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced 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.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case continued without interruption.
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 international student in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.