Person of Interest in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect believed to be the recent fatal violence at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, as stated by officials.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information from an official source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.