Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Located Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the recent deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday evening, according to officials.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. This suspect is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The two students who were killed in the shooting 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 international student in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the circumstances of the death.
