The girl who chased frogs

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Lyra McKee

Lula Solorzano, a Honduran living in Miami, took advantage of Amazon Prime to send things around the world. Occasionally her friends used her login and on Nov. 6, 2016, Solorzano dug through her Prime account to look up the details of a recent order.

Days earlier, her friend Meli Flores sent a birthday present to her fiance, Ben Pizii, in London, using Solorzano’s account. In the account record, Solorzano hoped, would be a contact number for Pizii. She urgently needed to speak to him. It was about Meli.

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  1. David Ford

    Lyra Catherine McKee (31 March 1990 – 18 April 2019) was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. She also served as an editor for Mediagazer.
    On 18 April 2019, McKee was fatally shot during rioting in the Creggan area of Derry.
    McKee wrote on the consequences of The Troubles. She notably wrote “Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies”[1], an article on teenage suicides linked to the conflict.
    At the time of her death, McKee was researching unsolved killings during The Troubles in Northern Ireland of the late 20th century. Publication of her first book, a non-fiction work titled Angels with Blue Faces, was imminent at the time of her death. As yet (August 2019) it is still to be released.
    On 18 April 2019, McKee was shot during rioting in the Creggan area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Violence broke out after police raids on dissidents with the aim of seizing munitions ahead of the Easter Rising commemorative parades due to take place in the area that weekend. Police said that a gunman fired up to twelve shots towards police officers. McKee, who was standing near an armoured police Land Rover, was wounded in the head by a masked gunman armed with a handgun, believed to be a member of the New IRA.
    She was survived by her partner, mother, two brothers and three sisters.

    [1] https://mosaicscience.com/story/conflict-suicide-northern-ireland/

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