Suspect in Ivy League Campus Shooting Located 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, according to law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement source. The same individual 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 this evening,” said 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 news follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous armed officers entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a disappointment, 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 second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.