Penn students, Phila. community honor Brown University shooting victims at Ivy League-wide vigil

Students and community members gathered for a vigil on Wednesday to honor the victims of an active-shooter incident at Brown University earlier this week.

As part of an Ivy League-wide vigil on Dec. 17, around 15 students from Penn and Brown assembled with candles near the Split Button sculpture outside of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Two students from Brown spoke about the Dec. 13 shooting — which killed two individuals and injured nine others — before attendees observed a moment of silence for the victims.

“We were known as the happy Ivy,” said Jack DiPrimio, a graduate student at Brown who lives in the Philadelphia area, during the vigil. “Brown is really tight. Everyone knows everyone.”…

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