Iowa police identified two victims of a shooting outside of Cornerstone Church during a college ministry program there.

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The man who police say shot and killed two women before killing himself Thursday had been arrested days before on harassment charges in connection to one of the victims, officials said Friday. 

Authorities identified the shooter as Johnathan Lee Whitlatch, 33, of Boone, Iowa, who they say confronted three women in the parking lot of Cornerstone Church on Thursday evening, said Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald at a news conference Friday.

Whitlatch shot and killed two women, who were identified as Eden Mariah Montang, 22, and Vivian Renee Flores, 21, both students at Iowa State University. One of the women had previously been in a relationship with Whitlatch. The third woman was not injured. 

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