Cara A. Ellis died attempting to rescue Bryan H. Mueller from assault, Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, October 4, 2010. Mueller, 52, fell to the ground after a man on the second floor of a nearby townhouse shot him with a semi-automatic rifle. Ellis, 21, homemaker, was in her townhouse two doors away and heard the shots, as did other neighbors. She left her residence, saw Mueller, and was overheard asking him if he needed help as she approached him. The assailant fired again, striking Ellis and mortally wounding her. The assailant turned the weapon on himself and inflicted a fatal wound. Mueller also died at the scene.
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Cara A. Ellis (nee Cahayla), 21, of Little Egg Harbor, N.J., formerly of Livingston and Teaneck, N.J., died on Oct. 4, 2010.
She was buried at Restland Cemetery in East Hanover, N.J.
(Edited from an obituary in the Star-Ledger, Oct. 10, 2010.)