Suspect in Ivy League Campus Tragedy Found Discovered Deceased Inside Self-Storage Unit.
The individual linked to the recent deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday evening, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information from an official 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 ended his own life tonight,” said the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news comes after a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous armed officers entering the premises.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused without interruption.
The two students who were killed in the attack have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to provide further details on the circumstances of the death.
