Sources Telling Mark Halperin That Republican Student Ella Cook Was ‘Target’ of Shooting at Brown University (VIDEO)

The investigation of the shooting at Brown University has been a total train wreck. Officials from the university, the state of Rhode Island, and the city of Providence have looked ridiculous at various moments over the last few days.

No one seems to know anything, or if they do, they are not sharing all of the details with the public. There are reports that the shooter yelled something before the shooting but authorities will not tell the public what was said.

Details on a motive or any type of explanation have been slow to materialize.

Independent journalist Mark Halperin shared some details today that he is getting from sources. He says that he is being told that Ella Cook, the vice president of the College Republicans at Brown University, was the actual ‘target’ of the shooting. Cook was one of the two people killed in the shooting.

In the video below, Mark says:

“I believe in being transparent here. If I were editing The New York Times, I don’t think I’d put it in the paper,” says @MarkHalperin. But people are telling me that the family of Ella Cook, the Alabama young woman who was a sophomore, has been told that she was the target of what happened at Brown.

I have no idea whether that’s true. There’s other theories about why the person did what they did. And since we don’t know who the assailant is, it’s going to be harder to say. But if it’s true that she was targeted, that’s a big story because she was one of the most visible conservatives on that campus.”

Watch the video:

“I believe in being transparent here. If I were editing The New York Times, I don’t think I’d put it in the paper,” says @MarkHalperin. But people are telling me that the family of Ella Cook, the Alabama young woman who was a sophomore, has been told that she was the target of… pic.twitter.com/MgcwIBEIKu

— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) December 16, 2025

There are very few conservative students at Brown. What are the odds that the shooter hit Ella Cook randomly?

.8% of Brown University students identify as very Conservative.

Ella Cook was that .8% on a campus of very far Left radicals.

I’m not buying this was random and Brown doesn’t have any info.

Poor Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov was in the wrong place at the wrong time. pic.twitter.com/FRSE3SHx8s

— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 16, 2025

If Brown is trying to cover up certain details about this shooting, they are running a fool’s errand. This is all going to come out eventually.

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