The individual believed to be the weekend's fatal violence at Brown University authorities state took his own life on Thursday night, according to officials.
The discovery was made at a storage location on Thursday evening, as reported from an official source. The same individual is also believed of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at a home in the Boston area.
“He committed suicide tonight,” said 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. Witnesses described seeing numerous armed officers converging on the location.
The intensive search for the shooter had restarted on Monday after state prosecutors announced that a individual detained on Sunday had been let go. This turn of events was acknowledged to be likely to cause fresh anxiety for the local community.
Local officials emphasized that while the release was a setback, the overall case was not paused unabated.
The two students who lost their lives in the attack have been identified. They are Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama who was served as vice-president for a campus political group, and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an Uzbek national in his freshman year who aspired to a neurosurgeon.
Authorities are scheduled to hold a news briefing to deliver additional information on the suspect's death.
