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The president of Columbia’s historic Stephens College describes a nursing student who was killed in this weekend’s shooting downtown as a “shining Stephens woman whose kindness, drive and joy inspired everyone who knew her.” Stephens College hosted a gathering Sunday evening to mourn the loss of nursing student Aiyanna Williams, who was killed in Saturday’s early-morning shooting downtown. Williams, a Columbia Battle high school graduate, earned the Muriel Battle scholarship and a scholarship from the Day Dreams Foundation, which supported her passion for ballet. The longtime UM System president describes this weekend’s deadly shooting downtown as another example of what he calls the rampant crime problem we are seeing on a daily basis. Fifth Ward Columbia Councilman Donald Waterman joined hosts Randy Tobler and Stephanie Bell live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Missouri.":