Search for shooter in killing of two students began anew after first person detained was released
A man suspected in the shooting at Brown Universitythis weekend that killed two people and injured nine had committed suicide Thursday night, authorities said.
The man was discovered dead at a storage facility on Thursday evening, the AP reported, citing a law enforcement source. The suspect is also believed to have killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his Boston-area home, the official said.
“He took his own life tonight,” Oscar Perez, chief of the Providence, Rhode Island police department, said at a press conference.
Perez identified the man as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a 48-year-old Brown student.
