A man suspected in the deadly shooting at Brown University was been found dead Thursday evening in a New Hampshire storage facility, according to two people briefed on the investigation.
The two people familiar spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose details of the probe. Officials were expected to hold a news conference in Providence later Thursday evening.
A massive law enforcement presence was seen surrounding the storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, Thursday evening, and Salem police advised residents to look out for “any individuals on foot who appear out of place, unfamiliar to the area, or behaving in a manner that seems unusual or suspicious.” There is no risk to the public, Salem police said.
By Thursday evening, officers had tracked the suspect to an Extra Space Storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, near the Massachusetts border. News footage from a helicopter showed a large law enforcement presence surrounding the building as officers with long guns appeared to stage for a confrontation.
Federal, state and local law enforcement have spent almost a week scouring the region for the gunman, who killed two Brown students and injured nine others at a study session for an Economics exam on Saturday afternoon. The prolonged search sent thousands of scared students home and cast a pall over Providence, a tight-knit city where gun violence is rare.
In most mass shootings in the United States, suspects are either killed or captured quickly, making the violence at Brown stand out.
Each day during the manhunt, local news conferences have become more contentious as police provided bare-bones updates and asked for the public’s help identifying blurred images of a person of interest.
Frustration grew after police briefly detained a person of interest Sunday before releasing him without charges, saying their evidence showed he was not the shooter.
Witnesses have told The Washington Post that a man dressed all in black, his face covered, burst into a lecture hall where the study session was wrapping up around 4 p.m. Saturday. He yelled something unintelligible and opened fire. Students spent the night locked down in dorms and university buildings, barricading themselves and trying to find out if anyone they knew had been shot or killed.
The two slain students were Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama who was studying math and French, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman from Virginia who was an aspiring brain surgeon.
Emily Davies, Susan Svrluga, María Luisa Paúl and Todd Wallack contributed to this report.
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