Suspect in Ivy League Campus Shooting Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The man linked to the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
He was found at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” stated the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development follows a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted 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 likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been named by family. 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 first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.