Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Found Discovered Dead Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect suspected of being the recent deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday evening, as stated by law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing 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 committed suicide tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The manhunt for the shooter had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced 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.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued without interruption.
The young victims who lost their lives in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore 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.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
