Suspect in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a significant law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing numerous armed officers entering the location.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore 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 expected to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.