Suspect in Brown University Tragedy Found Discovered Deceased Inside Storage Unit.
The man suspected of being the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information from 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 this evening,” stated the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news follows a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous armed officers converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This development was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued 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 active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to deliver further details on the circumstances of the death.