
During a Tuesday Senate Labor, Health and Human Services subcommittee hearing, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) accused Brown University of violating the Clery Act, leading to the shooting death of student Ella Cook, of Mountain Brook, in December 2025.

This tragic shooting weighed the university in the balance, and they were found wanting. Ella Cook, Mukhammad Umurzokov, and Nuno Loureiro lost their lives because of it.

Law enforcement authorities found Claudio Neves-Valente, 48, the suspected murderer of Ella Cobbs Cook, a 19-year-old Brown University student from Mountain Brook.

The Archdiocese of Mobile released a statement from Archbishop Mark S. Rivituso, responding to the death of Ella Cook, a Mountain Brook woman killed while in a shooting at Brown University this weekend.

News of a horrific shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island hit close to home in Alabama on Sunday after it was revealed that Mountain Brook native Ella Cook was one of the two victims killed.

The Mountain Brook woman who was killed in the Brown University shooting was the vice president of the school’s Republican club and was likely targeted, according to multiple sources. Ella Cook was one of two shot and killed on Saturday while studying with a group of students.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) reacted to the report of the Brown University gunman reportedly yelling something before shooting, continuing his push to put a stop to the rise of radical Islam in the United States.