The individual suspected of being the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday night, as stated by officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. This suspect is also suspected of killing 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 press conference.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear 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 local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting 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 Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
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