Suspect in Ivy League Campus Shooting Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual suspected of being the recent deadly violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information 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 ended his own life tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development follows a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting 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.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the suspect's death.