Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Incident Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life tonight,” stated the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development follows a major law enforcement presence 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 perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting 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 dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.
