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A brown university Second year student who died in an attack Rhode Island University was remembered as “smart, confident, curious, kind, principled, brave” at a funeral in his home state on Monday. Alabama,
Hundreds of people gathered at the city’s cathedral Church of the Advent birmingham To remember 19-year-old Ella Cook. He and 18-year-old freshman Mukhammadaziz Umurzokov were killed on December 13 when a gunman entered a study session in a Brown academic building and opened fire on students. Nine other students were injured.
Authorities believe the attack was carried out by 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, a graduate student studying physics at Brown during the 2000–01 school year. Authorities said Neves Valente shot and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Loureiro’s Boston-area home two days later.
Neves Valente, who had attended school with Loureiro in Portugal in the 1990s, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility a few days later, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The autopsy revealed that Neves Valente died on December 16, the same day that Loureiro died in hospital.
On Monday, Cook’s family invited attendees of the Episcopal funeral service to wear “Easter colors,” which underscored Cook’s Christian faith, while also welcoming the Christmas season.
The Rev. Paul FM Zahl, who previously led the church, read several letters written by Brown community members to Cook’s parents, Anna Bishop Cook and Richard Cook, who raised Ella and her two younger siblings in the affluent Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook.
“Ella was smart, confident, curious, kind, principled, brave. She made a huge impact on the campus in just three semesters,” wrote David Skarbek, Brown professor of political economy. “I used to tell Ella, ‘We need the Brown Pipeline through Alabama.’ In fact, his nickname on campus was Alabama.
Zahl told the congregation that the funeral was “a kind of bigger stage, a kind of more amplified mic” for Cook to spread his Christian faith. Zahl said he dreamed last week that he was skiing behind Cook and his family. “Ella turned and shouted confidently, confidently, ‘Come on, will you?'” She said she believed God had shown himself through the dream.
Zahl said, “I pray now that anyone who loved Ella so much in this life will be given a vivid, personal feeling of Ella’s love, which still exists with us.” “Because Ella’s love is eternal and completely altruistic.”
Cook was an accomplished pianist, studying French, mathematics, and economics at Brown, where she also served as vice president of the College Republicans. His political activity brought a wave of reaction nationally and from Alabama Republicans. Alabama Government. Kay Ivey Flags across the state were ordered to be flown at half-mast in Cook’s memory.