Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual linked to the recent deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per officials.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. This suspect 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,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant police operation 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 shooter had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
