The man linked to the recent fatal violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
He was found at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He took his own life this evening,” stated the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing multiple agents in tactical gear entering the premises.
The intensive search for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case continued without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting have been named by family. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was active in a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide further details on the suspect's death.