Suspect in Brown University Shooting Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The man suspected of being the recent deadly violence at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from 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 tonight,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a significant law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the suspect's death.
