The man believed to be the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.
He was found at a storage facility on Thursday evening, as reported citing an enforcement source. This suspect is also believed of the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
âHe ended his own life tonight,â said the chief of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The police official named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old individual enrolled at Brown University.
This news follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene described 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 announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been released. This development was admitted to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the city residents.
City leadership noted that while the letting go was a setback, the broader investigation continued unabated.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an international student in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver further details on the suspect's death.
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