Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of déjà vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus. As a Saugus High student, she was wounded in that school's mass shooting six years ago.

The killing of two college students brought an unwelcome and unusual spotlight to the mayor of Providence, R.I., a place where many residents know each other.

One of the victims killed in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University has been identified as Ella Cook, a Brown University student and a parishioner at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.