Kansas City journalist dies after being struck by a stray bullet that came through her apartment window
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A 24-year-old journalist for a Kansas City public radio station died this weekend after apparently being struck by a stray bullet that pierced a window in her apartment.
Aviva Okeson-Haberman, a journalist for Kansas City's NPR station KCUR, was found in her first-flood apartment Friday afternoon by a concerned colleague, after she stopped responding to messages. After she was found unconscious in her apartment, Okeson-Haberman was transported to Truman Medical Centers. She died Sunday from the gunshot wound, her station reported.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.