Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The individual linked to the recent deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage facility 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 home in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” 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 law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack 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 aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
