Individual Accused in Ivy League Campus Shooting Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The individual suspected of being the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday evening, as stated by officials.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information from an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of killing 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 news briefing.
The chief named the individual 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 armed officers converging on the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The young victims who lost their lives in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.