Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the circumstances of the death.
