Person of Interest in Ivy League Campus Incident Located Deceased Inside Storage Facility.
The suspect linked to the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, per law enforcement.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, according to information citing an enforcement source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” announced the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief identified the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described seeing numerous armed officers converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was acknowledged to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued unabated.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his first year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.