UPDATE:
An autopsy will be performed on the body of a Lancaster County college student who collapsed and died this weekend.
20-year-old Eric Phillips was a sophomore at Franklin & Marshall College. He was from Oakland, California.
Officials say Phillips was hanging out with friends in a common area of the dormitory when he collapsed. He was pronounced dead at a hospital early yesterday.
Police are still investigating
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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Officials at a central Pennsylvania college say a student collapsed in a dormitory and could not be revived.
Franklin & Marshall College officials say 20-year-old Eric Phillips was pronounced dead at a hospital early Sunday.
College spokeswoman Cass Cliatt tells the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era (http://bit.ly/12l9CDI) that police are investigating.
Cliatt says Phillips was hanging out with friends in a common area of the dorm when he collapsed. Students quickly called college security officers.
Phillips was a sophomore from Oakland, Calif. The Lancaster County coroner says an autopsy will be performed Monday morning.
Franklin & Marshall is a small liberal arts college serving about 2,300 students in Lancaster.
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