Person of Interest in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect linked to the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per officials.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information from an official source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” stated 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the attack have been named by family. 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 Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.
