The man suspected of being the recent deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, as stated by law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility 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 took his own life this evening,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a major law enforcement presence 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 manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the release was a setback, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
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.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.
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