The service sheet for the funeral of murdered journalist Lyra McKee lies on a pew at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, Northern Ireland on April 24, 2019. Benevolent, Sept 16 Reuters - Northern Irish police confirmed on Thursday that they had charged two men with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry in 2019 who sparked outrage in the British-run province.
The men aged 21 and 33 were also charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, the police service of Northern Ireland said in a statement.
The men were due in court on Friday, the statement said.
The New IRA, one of a small number of groups against the 1998 peace agreement which ended three decades of conflict between opponents and supporters of British rule, said one of its members shot the 29 year-old reporter dead when they opened fire in the direction of police during a riot McKee was watching.
Police charged a 52- year-old man with McKee's murder last year, while saying more than one person was involved in the crime and the man who fired the shot that killed her remain at large.