Person of Interest in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The man linked to the recent fatal violence at Brown University authorities state died by suicide on Thursday evening, according to officials.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. This suspect is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news comes after a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple armed officers entering the location.
The intensive search 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 development was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the city residents.
Local officials noted that while the release was a setback, the overall case continued without interruption.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
