https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/brown-university-shooting-victim-ella-cook-alabama.html
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Growing up in suburban Mountain Brook, Ala., Ella Cook was many things: An accomplished pianist. A summer employee at a local ice cream shop. And a standout high school student, with the grades to win acceptance to Brown University.
On Saturday afternoon, the college sophomore made her way to a review session for her upcoming exam in an introductory economics class. With about 60 other students who had gathered in the lecture hall, mostly freshmen, she spent two hours preparing for the test..."