Tributes pour in for Ella Cook, Brown shooting victim

Tributes have begun pouring in for Ella Cook, one of the two students killed in the mass shooting at Brown University.

Cook was a sophomore at Brown and the vice president of the Brown Republicans.

On Dec. 15, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was one of many prominent Republicans who took to social media to offer her condolences.

“There are no words,” Leavitt said in a post on social media. “Thinking of her family and friends, especially her parents. God please bless them.”

Two students, Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, died, while nine others were injured. The perpetrator has not yet been found.

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Who was Ella Cook?

Cook was a native of Mountain Brook, Alabama and a parishioner at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.

Rev. Craig Smalley described Cook as “incredibly grounded and generous and faithful” who was engaged in the church and the broader community in livestreamed remarks.

“She was an incredible light, not only here growing up at the Advent in the myriad ways in which she served faithfully and encouraged those around her,” the church said, “but at Brown University as well.”