SEATTLE, Washington – On Tuesday afternoon, after a series of killing rampages across the state, Ella Harris successfully stopped a bloodthirsty killer by bravely shouting, “Stop. Please look at me. This isn’t you.”

Ella, who had been walking home from work at 2 a.m. and took an isolated alley as a shortcut to her apartment, began to panic when she heard footsteps behind her. Turning around, she found a barefoot man in a pair of shorts.

“When he pulled out a knife, I ran straight into the woods, hoping the trees would hide me,” said Ella, who admitted to running past her house so the killer wouldn’t know where she lived. “I got the idea from critically acclaimed films like the Scream franchise and Final Destination series.”

In the woods, Ella tripped on a fallen tree and twisted her ankle. Weaponless and with no idea how she would escape, she summoned the wisdom of the greatest literary works of her generation.

When asked what classics inspired those life-saving words, Ella replied, “The foundational texts of our time, Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent.”

The moment she spoke, Ezra immediately dropped his weapon, pounded his chest, and collapsed to the ground in tears.

Police officers have added the “Look at Me, This Isn’t You” strategy as a self-defense move for young women everywhere who might find themselves at the mercy of a killer.

At press time, Ella was reported to have told police that Ezra was “basically innocent” and had only chased her in self-defense after she “hurt his ego by running.”