Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Shooting Located Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The individual linked to the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per officials.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information 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 committed suicide tonight,” 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a significant police operation 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 shooter 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 city residents.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack 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 international student in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the suspect's death.
