Suspect in Brown University Shooting Located Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of 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 identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous armed officers entering 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 deeply concerning for the local community.
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 identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.
