Suspect in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect linked to the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development follows a significant law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous armed officers converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
The two students who were killed in the shooting have been identified. 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 international student in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the circumstances of the death.