Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Found Discovered Dead Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual believed to be the recent deadly shooting incident at Brown University reportedly committed suicide on Thursday night, per officials.
The discovery was made at a storage facility 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 ended his own life this evening,” said the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The manhunt for the shooter had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case continued unabated.
The young victims who lost their lives in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.
