The suspect believed to be the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly took his own life on Thursday night, per officials.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief named the individual 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. Journalists on scene described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering 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 released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students 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 international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the suspect's death.
