The individual believed to be the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University reportedly died by suicide on Thursday evening, according to law enforcement.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported citing an official source. The same individual is also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide this evening,” announced the head of the Providence police department during a news briefing.
The chief named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This news follows a major police presence at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Journalists on scene reported 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 announced that a person of interest on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was admitted to be deeply concerning for the local community.
Local officials noted that while the letting go was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the shooting 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 first year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are expected to hold a press conference to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.
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