Individual Accused in Brown University Incident Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The individual linked to the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, according to 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 the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” said the chief 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 law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
City leadership emphasized that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The young victims 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 scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.
