Person of Interest in Brown University Tragedy Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The individual believed to be the recent deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing numerous armed officers converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case continued unabated.
The young victims who lost their lives in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the suspect's death.
