Main line of enquiry is that dissident group New IRA was responsible, PSNI says
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the main line of enquiry is that the dissident republican grouping the New IRA was responsible. The same group were also blamed for the car bomb which exploded outside the city’s courthouse in January.He said police had mounted a search operation in Derry before the murder on Thursday evening.
Ms McKee was taken to Altnagelvin hospital and died shortly afterwards. According to the PSNI she was not working as a journalist when she was shot. Ms McKee, who was originally from Belfast, had moved to Derry to be with her partner, Ms Canning. An editor with California-based news site Mediagazer, she was named one of Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 in media in 2016. She had signed a publishing deal with Faber & Faber and her book The Lost Boys was due for publication in 2020.
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