The man linked to the weekend's deadly shooting incident at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday evening, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported from an enforcement source. The same individual is also suspected of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home 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 individual enrolled at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant law enforcement operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported seeing numerous agents in tactical gear converging on the premises.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had resumed on Monday after the attorney general's office revealed that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case continued without interruption.
The two students 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 freshman year who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the circumstances of the death.
