Overview
- Service for Ella Cook is being held in Alabama on Monday following last Saturday’s shooting at Brown University.
- Cook, a Birmingham native and Brown sophomore studying French and economics, was one of two students killed; nine others were wounded.
- Investigators say the suspected gunman, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, also killed MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro two days later in Brookline, Massachusetts.
- The multi-state manhunt ended Thursday when Valente was found dead in a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit, and an autopsy determined he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Authorities cite evidence tying Valente to both scenes and note his prior connections to Brown and to Loureiro, while the motive remains unclear.