Individual Accused in Brown University Incident Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The individual suspected of being the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” said 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This development was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
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 served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the suspect's death.
