Person of Interest in Brown University Tragedy Located Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The man linked to the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” stated the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development follows a major police presence 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 revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety 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 were killed 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 dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the circumstances of the death.
