Police ID 2 women shot at Md. church

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - May 04, 2012 (WPVI) -- Police say the administrative assistant of a Maryland church was killed and a church rector was wounded in a shooting.

Howard County Police on Friday identified the slain woman as 59-year-old Brenda Brewington. She was pronounced dead Thursday evening at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City.

Police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn says the co-rector, 62-year-old Mary-Marguerite Kohn of Halethorpe, remains in critical condition at Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Llewellyn says police are working to identify the suspect, a man found dead in the nearby woods of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police found a gun near the man's body.

A church custodian reported to police at about 5:20 p.m. Thursday that he found the two women inside a church office.

Ellicott City is about 14 miles west of Baltimore.

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