Brown University shooting victim ID’d; person of interest released

(The Center Square) — Authorities are continuing to search for a lone gunman who killed two Brown University students, including the 19-year-old vice president of the elite college's Republican club, and wounded nine others in a mass shooting at the school over the weekend. The shooting occurred Saturday in Providence, R.I., at the Ivy League school's engineering building as students were taking final exams, authorities said. The victims included Ella Cook, a 19-year-old Brown sophomore and vice president of the Brown College Republicans club. The other victim, along with those injured in the shooting, hasn't yet been identified. Several media outlets quoted students and other witnesses saying that the shooter yelled "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire in the building. Authorities briefly detained a "person of interest" on Sunday night but said the man was released because the evidence no longer supported keeping him in custody. Rhode Island officials were forced to apologize after the