Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, as stated by law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement 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,” said the head 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 news comes after a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing numerous armed officers entering the premises.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety 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 were killed in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student 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 provide further details on the circumstances of the death.