Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Incident Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from 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 named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous armed officers entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The two students who were killed in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the suspect's death.
