Person of Interest in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The man believed to be the recent deadly violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an official source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” stated the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official identified the individual 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 multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the suspect's death.