Individual Accused in Brown University Incident Located Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The man believed to be the recent fatal violence at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday evening, per law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. This suspect is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” stated the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled 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 entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the attack have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student 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.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.