Suspect in Ivy League Campus Incident Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect linked to the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, as stated by law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” announced 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 development comes after a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple armed officers entering the premises.
The intensive search for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued unabated.
The two students who were killed in the shooting have been identified. 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 Uzbek national in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.