The individual linked to the weekend's deadly violence at Brown University authorities state committed suicide on Thursday night, according to officials.
His body was discovered at a storage location on Thursday evening, according to information from an official source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a residence in the Boston area.
“He ended his own life tonight,” announced the head of the Providence police department during a press conference.
The chief named the individual as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old student at Brown University.
This development comes after a significant police operation at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire earlier on Thursday. Witnesses described seeing numerous agents in tactical gear entering the location.
The manhunt for the perpetrator had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors 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 emphasized that while the letting go was a disappointment, the overall case continued without interruption.
The young victims who were killed in the shooting have been identified. 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 aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Officials are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the circumstances of the death.