The suspect suspected of being the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, as stated by officials.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from 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,” stated the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development follows a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who lost their lives in the attack 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 Uzbek national in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.
