Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Incident Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The man believed to be the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, according to officials.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life tonight,” announced 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 news comes after a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation continued without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the suspect's death.
