Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The suspect believed to be the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from 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 took his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous armed officers converging on the premises.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the attack 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 expected to hold a news briefing to provide additional information on the suspect's death.