‘Nobody deserves to be gunned down, nobody should have to go home without the one they love. No family should lose their child.’
The journalist who was shot and killed during unrest in Londonderry planned to propose to ‘the love of her life’ on a dream trip to New York.
Miss McKee died after being hit by a stray bullet in the Creggan area of Derry amid unrest on the evening of 18 April, in what police have called a ‘terrorist incident’. A message of condolence for 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee which has been graffitied on to the Free Derry Corner
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