Suspect in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The man believed to be the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing numerous armed officers converging on the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation continued without interruption.
The two students 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 first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
