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On Jan. 23, Ella Thomas, the older sister of 49ers defensive lineman Solomon Thomas, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a friend’s apartment in Coppell, Texas.
At 24, she was a stunning young woman with a personality matching her looks. But she was also wreaked by trauma: Years earlier, when she was a sophomore at the University of Arkansas, she was a victim of what her mother terms an “intense” sexual assault, and the fallout included depression, PTSD and anxiety.