Individual Accused in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The individual believed to be the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, as stated by law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported 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 committed suicide this evening,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development follows a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to provide additional information on the circumstances of the death.
