Suspect in Brown University Shooting Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect linked to the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” stated the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news follows a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case continued 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 international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
