Individual Accused in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The individual linked to the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
âHe ended his own life this evening,â said 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple armed officers converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced 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 emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.