The suspect suspected of being the recent fatal shooting incident at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, per officials.
He was found at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life tonight,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief identified the deceased man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development follows a major law enforcement presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses reported seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter 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 deeply concerning for the city residents.
City leadership emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation continued without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been identified. 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 first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.