Person of Interest in Ivy League Campus Shooting Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect suspected of being the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, as stated by law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued unabated.
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 active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the suspect's death.