Person of Interest in Ivy League Campus Shooting Located Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual linked to the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. This suspect is also suspected of killing 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 police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
The young victims who lost their lives in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the circumstances of the death.