Two students who died in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University were being remembered Monday – as a manhunt for their killer continued following the release by authorities in Rhode Island of the sole person of interest detained in the case.
Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama, was “an incredible, grounded, faithful, bright light”, according to the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, which paid tribute to her at a service on Sunday.
Cook was vice-president of Brown’s chapter of College Republicans of America, the group said. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, also posted condolences to X, saying in part: “There are no words. Thinking of her family and friends, especially her parents.”
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