A 24-year-old radio journalist for the Kansas City NPR affiliate was shot and killed in her apartment, apparently by a stray bullet that flew through her window and struck her, NBC News reports.
Aviva Okeson-Haberman was found on the floor of her first floor apartment in the downtown Kansas City. She was transitioning into a new role in Lawrence, Kansas, 40 miles away, covering social issues and criminal justice for the Kansas News Service, which is a reporting partnership.
Okeson-Haberman had interned at KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate. She joined the station in June 2019 as the Missouri politics and government reporter. “Aviva was brilliant,” KCUR news director Lisa Rodriguez said in the station’s story about her death. “Even as an intern, her approach to storytelling and her ability to hold those in power accountable paralleled many a veteran reporter.”