In early June, Kathlen Romeu posted a photo of herself and her boyfriend on a Instagram, with a caption announcing that she was pregnant. “I am discovering myself as a mother, and I am scared thinking about how it is going to be,” the 24-year old interior designer wrote on 2 June. “I laugh, I cry and I am afraid.”
Just a few days after writing those tentative, hopeful words, she was dead: another victim of Rio de Janeiro’s relentless conflict between police and drug gangs.
According to the city authorities, she was struck by a single stray bullet during a confrontation between officers and criminals.
But the death on Tuesday of
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