Person of Interest in Ivy League Campus Incident Located Dead Inside Storage Unit.
The suspect suspected of being the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday evening, per officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life this evening,” announced 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 news follows a major police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after the attorney general's office announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a disappointment, the broader investigation was not paused without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore 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.
